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HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Praise

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. Praise, as recorded
SexFemale
2025 rank2,680
2025 number65
Peak year2025
Peak rank2,680
Years present33 of 146
Dog licences, New York5
Pet licences, Seattle

Statement of record

Praise was given to 65 girls in 2025, ranking 2,680th for the year. It peaked in 2025, when it ranked 2,680th and went to 65 babies. It has appeared in 33 of the 146 years on record. In 2025 it was given to girls and boys in near-equal numbers. It has climbed 699 places since 2020.

Charting: Praise

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Praise
188019201960200020252040peak 2025 · #2680
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

58%

Basis: phonetics. One voiced obstruent, one bilabial stop, one sibilant, 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.

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