HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Poe

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. Poe, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	10,423
2025 number	7
Peak year	2021
Peak rank	7,454
Years present	14 of 146
Dog licences, New York	59
Pet licences, Seattle	15

Statement of record

Poe was given to 7 boys in 2025, ranking 10,423rd for the year. It peaked in 2021, when it ranked 7,454th and went to 11 babies. It has appeared in 14 of the 146 years on record. In 2025 it was given to girls and boys in near-equal numbers. It has climbed 1,231 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Poe

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

22%

Basis: phonetics. One bilabial stop, 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.