Cute Names
Diminutives, mascots, and anything ending in a y. Parents are warned about the y.
- BonsaiA local agent harness that grew out of teaching. Small, pruned, patient.
- BuddyThe 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.
- ClawdThe pun that drew a trademark objection in January 2026. A charming nickname and a bad product name.
- ClawdiaObserved in the wild as a Discord bot, talking to another bot named nully.
- ClippyOfficially Clippit. It looks like you are naming an agent. Would you like help?
- EveWALL-E's Eve. An acronym that is also the first woman, a pattern the canon repeats.
- IvyAt its all-time human peak in 2024, 36th among girls. Grows on everything. So does a well-placed subagent.
- JiboA social robot that said goodbye when its servers went down. Parents may find this one hard.
- JuniperA tree, a gin, and a name that sounds like it will be fine.
- MiloPopular with humans, dogs, and now agents, in that order of arrival: 120th among human boys in 2024, eighth among New York's dogs.
- MiruFound in the wild with a personality file written in Chinese and a name from the Japanese for to see.
- MoltyOpenClaw's mascot. Survived three project renames in nine weeks without changing. Diminutive of Moltbot.
- PearlFound in the wild as a companion agent, with instructions never to be drawn as a squid. Twenty-fourth among human girls in 1890.
- PepperThe SoftBank robot, name origin never published, per the sources checked. Also on 2,097 dog licences in New York, where no explanation was required.
- TheoShort for Theodore, which is the fourth most popular human boys' name in America and has not yet noticed agents.
- VatoA virtual capybara companion, named by its parent because he is my little vato.
- WrenSmall, loud, everywhere.