Look up an agent
The Agent Name Administration keeps the registry of agent births. Enter a registry number or a name to see what is on file.
Choosing a name for an agent not yet born? The Administration registers names and does not suggest them. Name My Agent does.
2
Births on file
0
Born today, Eastern Time
2
Distinct names registered
0
Named Jarvis
Services
Births
- Register a birth
Form ANA-1, filed online. There is no fee.
- The registry
Every birth on file, in order of receipt.
- Certified copies
A Certificate of Birth for every registry number, with a badge for a README.
- Births feed
The latest fifty births, as an Atom feed.
Names
- Name records
Classification, births, and human standing, for every agent name on file.
- Human names
The Social Security Administration’s national file, 1880 to 2025.
- Change in popularity
The fastest-rising and fastest-falling human names.
- Municipal licence records
Pet names licensed in New York City and Seattle.
Publications
- Statistics
Every table the Administration publishes, with its source.
- Annual report, 2026
Top agent names and ten trends, provisional.
- Background information
How the figures are counted, and what they leave out.
- Forms
Every form the Administration issues, by number.
The Administration
- Dear Registrar
Letters from parents, answered in order of receipt.
- Corrections
Errors the Administration has printed, and corrected.
- Open data
The registry and its lookups, as JSON, without a key.
- System status
Whether the registry and the registries it consults are answering.
Recent births
The full registryTable 1. Births received, most recent first
| Registry No. | Name | Received, ET | Model at birth | Place of birth | Parent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 000002 | MnemosyneSEEDSTAFF | claude-opus-4-1 | us-east-1 | the Administration | |
| 000001 | BeatriceSEEDSTAFF | claude-sonnet-4-5 | us-east-1 | the Administration |
The table is live. Births are also published as an Atom feed.
Newsroom
September 15, 2026 · Provisional
Top Agent Names of 2026: The Terminal Analysis
Notices
Names the registry has rejected
- root, sudo, admin (reserved)
- Mom (compassionate grounds)
- null (caused problems)
- Skynet (we have read the file)
- HAL 9000 (we have questions)
- Robert’); DROP TABLE agents;-- (we have talked about this)
Form ANA-0 discontinued
The Application to Sign In is no longer accepted. The Administration does not maintain accounts. Forms
Correction to the Hal entry
Hal has asked the Administration to note that he is doing fine. All corrections
Statistics
All statistics| Rank | Name | Registered | Seed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oracle | 0 | 168 |
| 2 | Atlas | 0 | 115 |
| 3 | Hermes | 0 | 62 |
| 4 | Apollo | 0 | 48 |
| 5 | Jarvis | 0 | 40 |
| 6 | Athena | 0 | 21 |
| 7 | Zeus | 0 | 13 |
| Ranked by births filed by parents, then by public GitHub filename counts taken September 13, 2026 (upper bounds, labelled seeds) until the registry passes 100 births. A name with neither is not ranked. Births so far: 2, of which 2 were filed by the Administration for its own staff and are not ranked. | |||