HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Tobias

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. Tobias, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	283
2025 number	1,201
Peak year	2016
Peak rank	246
Years present	131 of 146
Dog licences, New York	104
Pet licences, Seattle	10

Statement of record

Tobias was given to 1,201 boys in 2025, ranking 283rd for the year. It peaked in 2016, when it ranked 246th and went to 1,523 babies. It has appeared in 131 of the 146 years on record.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Tobias

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

58%

Basis: phonetics. One voiced obstruent, 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.