HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Steve

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. Steve, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	1,617
2025 number	105
Peak year	1959
Peak rank	41
Years present	146 of 146
Dog licences, New York	99
Pet licences, Seattle	11

Statement of record

Steve was given to 105 boys in 2025, ranking 1,617th for the year. It peaked in 1959, when it ranked 41st and went to 11,068 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have. It has fallen 364 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Steve

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

66%

Basis: phonetics. One voiced obstruent, 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.