HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Shay

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. Shay, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	1,227
2025 number	184
Peak year	2022
Peak rank	914
Years present	74 of 146
Dog licences, New York	117
Pet licences, Seattle	1

Statement of record

Shay was given to 184 girls in 2025, ranking 1,227th for the year. It peaked in 2022, when it ranked 914th and went to 301 babies. It has appeared in 74 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 293 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Shay

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

40%

Basis: phonetics. 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.