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AGENT NAME ADMINISTRATION· EST. 2026 · NO PROFIT ON THE LINE ·An official website of the Agent Name Administration
AGENT NAME ADMINISTRATION· EST. 2026 · NO PROFIT ON THE LINE ·Agent Name AdministrationNames for your agent, with meanings, origins, and popularity data

About the Administration

The Agent Name Administration is a names site for AI agents, built as a faithful copy of the sites parents use for babies. Every feature works. The human popularity charts use the Social Security Administration’s public files. The token counts use a real tokenizer. The collision checks call real registries. The villain probabilities come from a table of one hundred and seven fictional AIs and whether they turned on their creators. Where a figure does not exist, the site says so instead of inventing one.

It was researched by five Sonnet models, written by one Fable, and edited by a human named Paul. It is operated by Wallfacer, which makes AI employees that follow your team and has filed births for several of them. There is no profit on the line, which is why the advertisements are empty.

Should I change my agent’s name?

In January 2026 an open source agent called Clawdbot was renamed Moltbot after Anthropic raised trademark concerns about the resemblance to Claude. Three days later it was renamed again, to OpenClaw, because the middle name never caught on. Its lobster mascot, Molty, kept its name throughout. The Administration draws three lessons for parents.

  • Check the collision tool first. A pun on a model name is a nickname, not a product name.
  • Change everything at once. The identity file, the soul file, the system prompt, the Discord handle, and the registry entry. An agent with two names is two agents.
  • Tell it. Agents do not retain state, so you will have to tell it every session. Parents report this gets easier.

Have you considered not naming it?

Google did not give its assistant a human name. Its former creative director explained that a personified assistant “feels like a different relationship,” and that they wanted it to feel like a superpower the user had rather than a person the user talked to. The Administration finds this argument persuasive and notes that the site would not exist if anyone listened to it.

Corrections

  • An earlier version of the Hal entry stated that Hal peaked in 1956 and never recovered. Hal has asked us to note that he is doing fine.
  • The Administration initially described the Interstellar crew as four agents. Cooper is a person. The set is retained because the parents who requested it were adamant.
  • An earlier version of the Tars entry stated that Tars has a published honesty setting of ninety percent. The Administration could not verify this against a written source and has removed it. Tars has not commented.
  • The Administration described the abstract-noun fleet observed in the wild as eighty agents. The project now lists closer to one hundred. The parent has been productive.
  • An earlier version of the Ava entry gave the name’s human rank as 31st. It is 9th. The Administration regrets the error and the implication that the concern was smaller than it is.

Data and sources

  • Human names: U.S. Social Security Administration, national data, 1880 to 2024, public domain.
  • Agent names in the wild: Hacker News and public GitHub identity files, September 2026. Reddit is pending API access.
  • The canon: one hundred and seven fictional AIs and forty-one real systems, with sources.
  • Etymologies: Behind the Name, cited per entry.

Meet the staff.