HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Stepan

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. Stepan, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	10,536
2025 number	7
Peak year	2019
Peak rank	6,062
Years present	34 of 146
Dog licences, New York	10
Pet licences, Seattle	–

Statement of record

Stepan was given to 7 boys in 2025, ranking 10,536th for the year. It peaked in 2019, when it ranked 6,062nd and went to 15 babies. It has appeared in 34 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 1,301 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Stepan

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

52%

Basis: phonetics. One bilabial stop, one sibilant, ends on a consonant. 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.