HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Lani

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. Lani, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	1,603
2025 number	131
Peak year	1979
Peak rank	999
Years present	91 of 146
Dog licences, New York	44
Pet licences, Seattle	7

Statement of record

Lani was given to 131 girls in 2025, ranking 1,603rd for the year. It peaked in 1979, when it ranked 999th and went to 143 babies. It has appeared in 91 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 607 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Lani

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.