HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Tanner

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. Tanner, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	475
2025 number	641
Peak year	1997
Peak rank	82
Years present	73 of 146
Dog licences, New York	98
Pet licences, Seattle	6

Statement of record

Tanner was given to 641 boys in 2025, ranking 475th for the year. It peaked in 1997, when it ranked 82nd and went to 4,676 babies. It has appeared in 73 of the 146 years on record.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Tanner

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

30%

Basis: phonetics. 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.