HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Odessa

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. Odessa, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	1,197
2025 number	193
Peak year	1910
Peak rank	280
Years present	146 of 146
Dog licences, New York	11
Pet licences, Seattle	1

Statement of record

Odessa was given to 193 girls in 2025, ranking 1,197th for the year. It peaked in 1910, when it ranked 280th and went to 194 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have. It has climbed 406 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Odessa

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

46%

Basis: phonetics. One voiced obstruent, 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.