HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Velvet

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. Velvet, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	8,824
2025 number	12
Peak year	1961
Peak rank	542
Years present	83 of 146
Dog licences, New York	36
Pet licences, Seattle	1

Statement of record

Velvet was given to 12 girls in 2025, ranking 8,824th for the year. It peaked in 1961, when it ranked 542nd and went to 332 babies. It has appeared in 83 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 3,250 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Velvet

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

62%

Basis: phonetics. Two voiced obstruents, 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.