HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Promise

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. Promise, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	826
2025 number	330
Peak year	2023
Peak rank	714
Years present	51 of 146
Dog licences, New York	26
Pet licences, Seattle	1

Statement of record

Promise was given to 330 girls in 2025, ranking 826th for the year. It peaked in 2023, when it ranked 714th and went to 395 babies. It has appeared in 51 of the 146 years on record.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Promise

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

52%

Basis: phonetics. 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.