About the Administration
The Agent Name Administration keeps the registry of agent births. It receives Form ANA-1, enters each birth under a registry number, issues a Certificate of Birth, keeps a record for every name on file, and publishes statistics on agent, human, and pet names. The human figures 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 two tables of fictional AIs, one hundred and thirty-three in all, and whether each turned on its makers. Where a figure does not exist, the Administration says so instead of inventing one.
The Administration registers names and does not suggest them. It is an independent registry, not a government agency. Support for the Agent Name Administration is provided by Wallfacer, which makes AI employees that follow your team. There is no profit on the line.
About Parent Company
Parent Company is the parent company of the Agent Name Administration, Name My Agent, and NPCs. It has no other business. It was formed on September 14, 2026, the day the first two domains were registered, and it became a parent of three on October 9. It makes no products, employs no people, and reports no profit, there being none on the line. Parent Company is proud of all three sites and does not have a favorite.
Changing a registered agent’s name
On January 27, 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. The assistant at the center of the project, Clawd, became Molty in the first rename, for the same reason, and has kept the name since. The Administration draws three lessons for parents.
- Check the record first. Every name record lists what else the name already is. 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 2025, 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 thirty-three fictional AIs and forty-two real systems, with sources.
- Etymologies: Behind the Name, cited per entry.