HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Zayed

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. Zayed, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	4,136
2025 number	26
Peak year	2018
Peak rank	3,444
Years present	24 of 146
Dog licences, New York	–
Pet licences, Seattle	–

Statement of record

Zayed was given to 26 boys in 2025, ranking 4,136th for the year. It peaked in 2018, when it ranked 3,444th and went to 33 babies. It has appeared in 24 of the 146 years on record. It has climbed 1,310 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Zayed

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

72%

Basis: phonetics. Two voiced obstruents, 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.