HUMAN NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY

Zebulon

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. Zebulon, as recorded
Sex	Male
2025 rank	5,042
2025 number	20
Peak year	1979
Peak rank	776
Years present	70 of 146
Dog licences, New York	1
Pet licences, Seattle	–

Statement of record

Zebulon was given to 20 boys in 2025, ranking 5,042nd for the year. It peaked in 1979, when it ranked 776th and went to 125 babies. It has appeared in 70 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 1,023 places since 2020.

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Zebulon

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

64%

Basis: phonetics. Two voiced obstruents, one bilabial stop, 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.