HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Zaaliyah

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. Zaaliyah, as recorded
Sex	Female
2025 rank	10,896
2025 number	9
Peak year	2016
Peak rank	9,406
Years present	8 of 146
Dog licences, New York	–
Pet licences, Seattle	–

Statement of record

Zaaliyah was given to 9 girls in 2025, ranking 10,896th for the year. It peaked in 2016, when it ranked 9,406th and went to 12 babies. It has appeared in 8 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 6,560 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Zaaliyah

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

66%

Basis: phonetics, by spelling. One voiced obstruent, 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.