HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Yanky

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. Yanky, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	3,748
2025 number	30
Peak year	2022
Peak rank	3,612
Years present	18 of 146
Dog licences, New York	3
Pet licences, Seattle	–

Statement of record

Yanky was given to 30 boys in 2025, ranking 3,748th for the year. It peaked in 2022, when it ranked 3,612th and went to 32 babies. It has appeared in 18 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 1,473 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Yanky

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

30%

Basis: phonetics, by spelling. Ends in a vowel. The pronouncing dictionary has no entry, so the letters were sounded out by a stated rule.

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.