HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Nessie

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. Nessie, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	16,583
2025 number	5
Peak year	1902
Peak rank	1,965
Years present	16 of 146
Dog licences, New York	55
Pet licences, Seattle	9

Statement of record

Nessie was given to 5 girls in 2025, ranking 16,583rd for the year. It peaked in 1902, when it ranked 1,965th and went to 5 babies. It has appeared in 16 of the 146 years on record. Five babies received it in 2025, the smallest number the Social Security Administration will print.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Nessie

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.