HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Noir

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. Noir, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	12,830
2025 number	7
Peak year	2023
Peak rank	6,855
Years present	8 of 146
Dog licences, New York	13
Pet licences, Seattle	3

Statement of record

Noir was given to 7 girls in 2025, ranking 12,830th for the year. It peaked in 2023, when it ranked 6,855th and went to 17 babies. It has appeared in 8 of the 146 years on record. In 2025 it was given to girls and boys in near-equal numbers. It has fallen 5,693 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Noir

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.