HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Kerry

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. Kerry, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	2,464
2025 number	55
Peak year	1960
Peak rank	158
Years present	106 of 146
Dog licences, New York	36
Pet licences, Seattle	3

Statement of record

Kerry was given to 55 boys in 2025, ranking 2,464th for the year. It peaked in 1960, when it ranked 158th and went to 2,176 babies. It has appeared in 106 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 540 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Kerry

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.