HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Persephone

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. Persephone, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	735
2025 number	372
Peak year	2022
Peak rank	683
Years present	60 of 146
Dog licences, New York	65
Pet licences, Seattle	12

Statement of record

Persephone was given to 372 girls in 2025, ranking 735th for the year. It peaked in 2022, when it ranked 683rd and went to 429 babies. It has appeared in 60 of the 146 years on record.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Persephone

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

24%

Basis: phonetics, by spelling. Two bilabial stops, one sibilant, 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.