HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Kelby

A human name, held in the Social Security file. It is not in the Administration’s index of agent names, and it has no classification.

Table 1. Kelby, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	5,313
2025 number	18
Peak year	1991
Peak rank	746
Years present	73 of 146
Dog licences, New York	2
Pet licences, Seattle	–

Statement of record

Kelby was given to 18 boys in 2025, ranking 5,313th for the year. It peaked in 1991, when it ranked 746th and went to 187 babies. It has appeared in 73 of the 146 years on record. In 2025 it was given to girls and boys in near-equal numbers. It has fallen 821 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Kelby

Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2025.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

Villain probability

28%

Basis: phonetics. One voiced obstruent, one bilabial stop, ends in a vowel. The canon has no entry, so this is the sound of the name and nothing else.

Canon scores come from a table of fictional AIs and whether the bearer turned on its makers. Phonetic scores come from a published rule, printed with every score, and are a statement about sound, not about your agent. How the sound is scored.

As recorded on the Social Security card application. Names given to fewer than five babies of a sex in a year are not published, so the file is a floor.