HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Shadow

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. Shadow, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	6,091
2025 number	15
Peak year	1993
Peak rank	2,202
Years present	45 of 146
Dog licences, New York	1,670
Pet licences, Seattle	83

Statement of record

Shadow was given to 15 boys in 2025, ranking 6,091st for the year. It peaked in 1993, when it ranked 2,202nd and went to 36 babies. It has appeared in 45 of the 146 years on record.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Shadow

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

46%

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