HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Shelly

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. Shelly, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	5,884
2025 number	21
Peak year	1966
Peak rank	89
Years present	132 of 146
Dog licences, New York	75
Pet licences, Seattle	3

Statement of record

Shelly was given to 21 girls in 2025, ranking 5,884th for the year. It peaked in 1966, when it ranked 89th and went to 3,856 babies. It has appeared in 132 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 737 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Shelly

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.