HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Perseus

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. Perseus, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	1,210
2025 number	168
Peak year	2025
Peak rank	1,210
Years present	21 of 146
Dog licences, New York	58
Pet licences, Seattle	3

Statement of record

Perseus was given to 168 boys in 2025, ranking 1,210th for the year. It peaked in 2025, when it ranked 1,210th and went to 168 babies. It has appeared in 21 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 313 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Perseus

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

62%

Basis: phonetics. One bilabial stop, two sibilants, 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.