HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Obi

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. Obi, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	3,823
2025 number	29
Peak year	2023
Peak rank	3,272
Years present	18 of 146
Dog licences, New York	303
Pet licences, Seattle	22

Statement of record

Obi was given to 29 boys in 2025, ranking 3,823rd for the year. It peaked in 2023, when it ranked 3,272nd and went to 37 babies. It has appeared in 18 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 2,378 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Obi

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

28%

Basis: phonetics, by spelling. One voiced obstruent, one bilabial stop, ends in a vowel. The pronouncing dictionary has no entry, so the letters were sounded out by a stated rule.

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.