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Claude

Widely reported to honor Claude Shannon; Anthropic has not said. Naming an agent after the model is naming a retriever Dog, and since January 2026, when a trademark objection renamed a whole project over the pun, it is also paperwork. Among human boys it peaked in 1887, so the vintage market is open, and 43 New York dogs have already bought in.

Table 1. Claude, as recorded
ClassificationClass 2, Advisory
Specieslobster, painter
PronunciationKLAWD
OriginFrench, English
MeaningFrench masculine and feminine form of Claudius. In France the masculine name has been common since the Middle Ages due to the 7th-century Saint Claude of Besançon.
Syllables1
Length in tokens1 by the GPT tokenizer. The Claude count is pending.
Births registered0
First registered–
Public agent files on GitHub–

Statement of record

No birth has been registered under the name Claude. Claude was given to 40 boys in 2025, ranking 3,044th for the year. It peaked in 1887, when it ranked 46th and went to 375 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have. It has fallen 276 places since 2020.

Charting: Claude

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Claude
188019201960200020251,8493,698peak 1887 · #46
Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2025.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.
Table 2. Claude among human names, 1880 to 2025
SexMale
2025 rank3,044
2025 number40
Peak year1887
Peak rank46
Years present146 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

56%

Basis: phonetics. One voiced obstruent, ends on a consonant. 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

  1. The note on file. (research/03)
  2. Behind the Name. The origin, meaning, and pronunciation.
  3. U.S. Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, national data.
  4. The phonetic rule for villain probability. (research/12-villain-phonetics.md)