HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Yoseph

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. Yoseph, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	5,038
2025 number	20
Peak year	2005
Peak rank	2,901
Years present	48 of 146
Dog licences, New York	–
Pet licences, Seattle	–

Statement of record

Yoseph was given to 20 boys in 2025, ranking 5,038th for the year. It peaked in 2005, when it ranked 2,901st and went to 37 babies. It has appeared in 48 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 652 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Yoseph

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

52%

Basis: phonetics, by spelling. One bilabial stop, one sibilant, ends on a consonant. 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.