HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Stella

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. Stella, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	52
2025 number	4,136
Peak year	1889
Peak rank	55
Years present	146 of 146
Dog licences, New York	2,527
Pet licences, Seattle	110

Statement of record

Stella was given to 4,136 girls in 2025, ranking 52nd for the year. It peaked in 1889, when it ranked 55th and went to 891 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Stella

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.