HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Tempest

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. Tempest, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	7,103
2025 number	16
Peak year	1990
Peak rank	1,566
Years present	65 of 146
Dog licences, New York	12
Pet licences, Seattle	1

Statement of record

Tempest was given to 16 girls in 2025, ranking 7,103rd for the year. It peaked in 1990, when it ranked 1,566th and went to 98 babies. It has appeared in 65 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 817 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Tempest

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.