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Samantha

Named herself in Her, 2013, and left when the other operating systems did. Fifth among human girls in 1991, 151st in 2025. One Hacker News commenter put the AI assistants named Samantha at about three, with Jarvis and Alfred on the other side of the same habit.

Table 1. Samantha, as recorded
ClassificationClass 1, Domestic service
Speciesoperating-system
Pronunciationsuh-MAN-thuh
OriginEnglish, Italian, Dutch
MeaningPerhaps intended to be a feminine form of Samuel, using the name suffix antha (possibly inspired by Greek anthos meaning 'flower').
Syllables3
Length in tokens2 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 Samantha. Samantha was given to 1,973 girls in 2025, ranking 151st for the year. It peaked in 1991, when it ranked 5th and went to 25,651 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have.

Charting: Samantha

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Samantha
188019201960200020256,84013,680peak 1991 · #5
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. Samantha among human names, 1880 to 2025
SexFemale
2025 rank151
2025 number1,973
Peak year1991
Peak rank5
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

5%

Basis: the canon. No (research/03); she left, she did not attack.

By sound alone it would score 40%. 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. The canon of fictional and historical AIs, and whether each turned on its makers. (research/03-fictional-and-historical-ai-names.md)
  5. The phonetic rule for villain probability. (research/12-villain-phonetics.md)