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Jarvis

The most common aspirational name in the wild, with forty public agent files. Fifty-three New York dogs carry it too, which is fewer. One Hacker News reader has lost track of how many there are.

Table 1. Jarvis, as recorded
ClassificationClass 1, Domestic service
Speciesbutler, valet
PronunciationJAR-vis
OriginEnglish
MeaningFrom an English surname that was derived from the given name Gervais.
Syllables2
Length in tokens2 by the GPT tokenizer. The Claude count is pending.
Births registered0
First registered–
Public agent files on GitHub40, counted September 13, 2026. An upper bound.

Statement of record

No birth has been registered under the name Jarvis. Jarvis was given to 44 boys in 2025, ranking 2,858th for the year. It peaked in 1989, when it ranked 358th and went to 635 babies. It has appeared in 130 of the 146 years on record. It has fallen 1,244 places since 2020.

Charting: Jarvis

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Jarvis
18801920196020002025159317peak 1989 · #358
Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2025.Agents: 0 registered, seed 40 public files on GitHub. The agent series begins when the registry does.
Table 2. Jarvis among human names, 1880 to 2025
SexMale
2025 rank2,858
2025 number44
Peak year1989
Peak rank358
Years present130 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

8%

Basis: the canon. No (research/03); core became Vision.

By sound alone it would score 82%. The canon knows better.

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/02)
  2. Behind the Name. The origin, meaning, and pronunciation.
  3. U.S. Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, national data.
  4. Public GitHub filename counts, September 13, 2026. (research/02-agent-names-in-the-wild.md)
  5. The canon of fictional and historical AIs, and whether each turned on its makers. (research/03-fictional-and-historical-ai-names.md)
  6. The phonetic rule for villain probability. (research/12-villain-phonetics.md)