HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Tennessee

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. Tennessee, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	4,974
2025 number	27
Peak year	1884
Peak rank	579
Years present	88 of 146
Dog licences, New York	40
Pet licences, Seattle	–

Statement of record

Tennessee was given to 27 girls in 2025, ranking 4,974th for the year. It peaked in 1884, when it ranked 579th and went to 14 babies. It has appeared in 88 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 859 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Tennessee

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.