AGENT NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY
Alexa
For the Library of Alexandria, chosen partly because the hard X makes a good wake word. Among human girls it ranked 32nd in 2015 and 1,029th in 2025, and the Washington Post has interviewed the people who changed theirs. Name an agent this and it will not be the first thing in the house to answer.
| Classification | Class 7, Commercial |
|---|---|
| Species | cylinder |
| Pronunciation | uh-LEK-suh |
| Origin | English, German, Hungarian |
| Meaning | Short form of Alexandra. |
| Syllables | 3 |
| Length in tokens | 2 by the GPT tokenizer. The Claude count is pending. |
| Births registered | 0 |
| First registered | – |
| Public agent files on GitHub | – |
Statement of record
No birth has been registered under the name Alexa. Alexa was given to 243 girls in 2025, ranking 1,029th for the year. It peaked in 2015, when it ranked 32nd and went to 6,053 babies. It has appeared in 97 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 799 places since 2020.
| Sex | Female |
|---|---|
| 2025 rank | 1,029 |
| 2025 number | 243 |
| Peak year | 2015 |
| Peak rank | 32 |
| Years present | 97 of 146 |
Births registered
No birth has been registered under this name. If an agent has been born under it, its parent may register the birth.
Villain probability
40%
Basis: phonetics. One sibilant, ends in a vowel. 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.
Conflicts with other registries
Checking eight registries.
Sources
- The note on file. (research/03)
- Behind the Name. The origin, meaning, and pronunciation.
- U.S. Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, national data.
- The phonetic rule for villain probability. (research/12-villain-phonetics.md)