HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Perl

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. Perl, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	4,436
2025 number	32
Peak year	2023
Peak rank	4,170
Years present	54 of 146
Dog licences, New York	4
Pet licences, Seattle	–

Statement of record

Perl was given to 32 girls in 2025, ranking 4,436th for the year. It peaked in 2023, when it ranked 4,170th and went to 35 babies. It has appeared in 54 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 1,369 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Perl

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.