HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Kemp

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. Kemp, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	4,954
2025 number	20
Peak year	1898
Peak rank	1,224
Years present	111 of 146
Dog licences, New York	5
Pet licences, Seattle	–

Statement of record

Kemp was given to 20 boys in 2025, ranking 4,954th for the year. It peaked in 1898, when it ranked 1,224th and went to 5 babies. It has appeared in 111 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 3,460 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Kemp

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

42%

Basis: phonetics. One bilabial stop, ends on a consonant. 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.