HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Tobey

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. Tobey, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	9,619
2025 number	8
Peak year	2003
Peak rank	1,528
Years present	93 of 146
Dog licences, New York	85
Pet licences, Seattle	3

Statement of record

Tobey was given to 8 boys in 2025, ranking 9,619th for the year. It peaked in 2003, when it ranked 1,528th and went to 85 babies. It has appeared in 93 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 2,625 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Tobey

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

28%

Basis: phonetics. One voiced obstruent, one bilabial stop, 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.