AGENT NAME · NOT ON THE REGISTRY
Buddy
The name of Claude Code's virtual pet feature, and of 4,010 licensed dogs in New York City, thirteenth there. Nobody has ever had to explain it.
| Classification | Class 5, Diminutive |
|---|---|
| Species | dog |
| Pronunciation | /ˈbʌd.i/ |
| Origin | English |
| Meaning | From the English word meaning 'friend'. It probably originated as a nursery form of the word brother. |
| Syllables | 2 |
| Length in tokens | 1 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 Buddy. Buddy was given to 23 boys in 2025, ranking 4,418th for the year. It peaked in 1935, when it ranked 202nd and went to 604 babies. It has appeared in 131 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 259 places since 2020.
| Sex | Male |
|---|---|
| 2025 rank | 4,418 |
| 2025 number | 23 |
| Peak year | 1935 |
| Peak rank | 202 |
| Years present | 131 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
34%
Basis: phonetics. Two voiced obstruents, one bilabial stop, 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/02)
- 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)