HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Philo

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. Philo, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	11,663
2025 number	6
Peak year	1881
Peak rank	974
Years present	51 of 146
Dog licences, New York	10
Pet licences, Seattle	1

Statement of record

Philo was given to 6 boys in 2025, ranking 11,663rd for the year. It peaked in 1881, when it ranked 974th and went to 5 babies. It has appeared in 51 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 2,325 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Philo

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

30%

Basis: phonetics. 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.