HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Shaia

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. Shaia, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	8,144
2025 number	10
Peak year	2019
Peak rank	11,249
Years present	15 of 146
Dog licences, New York	–
Pet licences, Seattle	–

Statement of record

Shaia was given to 10 boys in 2025, ranking 8,144th for the year. It peaked in 2019, when it ranked 11,249th and went to 9 babies. It has appeared in 15 of the 146 years on record.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Shaia

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

50%

Basis: phonetics, by spelling. Two sibilants, ends in a vowel. The pronouncing dictionary has no entry, so the letters were sounded out by a stated rule.

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.