HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Payne

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. Payne, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	8,744
2025 number	9
Peak year	2000
Peak rank	1,149
Years present	49 of 146
Dog licences, New York	8
Pet licences, Seattle	–

Statement of record

Payne was given to 9 boys in 2025, ranking 8,744th for the year. It peaked in 2000, when it ranked 1,149th and went to 121 babies. It has appeared in 49 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 3,110 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Payne

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

42%

Basis: phonetics. One bilabial stop, 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.