HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Shoji

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. Shoji, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	–
2025 number	–
Peak year	1927
Peak rank	725
Years present	9 of 146
Dog licences, New York	5
Pet licences, Seattle	–

Statement of record

Shoji was not given to five or more babies of either sex in 2025. It last appeared in 1945. It peaked in 1927, when it ranked 725th and went to 81 babies. It has appeared in 9 of the 146 years on record.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Shoji

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

56%

Basis: phonetics. One voiced obstruent, two sibilants, 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.