HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Sampson

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. Sampson, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	3,435
2025 number	34
Peak year	1898
Peak rank	415
Years present	146 of 146
Dog licences, New York	103
Pet licences, Seattle	10

Statement of record

Sampson was given to 34 boys in 2025, ranking 3,435th for the year. It peaked in 1898, when it ranked 415th and went to 23 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have. It has fallen 1,072 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Sampson

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.