HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Messiah

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. Messiah, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	207
2025 number	1,666
Peak year	2021
Peak rank	172
Years present	50 of 146
Dog licences, New York	8
Pet licences, Seattle	–

Statement of record

Messiah was given to 1,666 boys in 2025, ranking 207th for the year. It peaked in 2021, when it ranked 172nd and went to 2,231 babies. It has appeared in 50 of the 146 years on record.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Messiah

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

40%

Basis: phonetics. One sibilant, 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.