HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Marlene

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. Marlene, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	1,268
2025 number	177
Peak year	1936
Peak rank	39
Years present	119 of 146
Dog licences, New York	4
Pet licences, Seattle	–

Statement of record

Marlene was given to 177 girls in 2025, ranking 1,268th for the year. It peaked in 1936, when it ranked 39th and went to 5,332 babies. It has appeared in 119 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 300 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Marlene

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

50%

Basis: phonetics. 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.