HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Kelly

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. Kelly, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	852
2025 number	319
Peak year	1977
Peak rank	10
Years present	146 of 146
Dog licences, New York	204
Pet licences, Seattle	3

Statement of record

Kelly was given to 319 girls in 2025, ranking 852nd for the year. It peaked in 1977, when it ranked 10th and went to 18,234 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Kelly

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

30%

Basis: phonetics. 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.