Agent Name Lists
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Sibling sets for fleets
Every set below is complete and comes from somewhere. We print the whole canon, in its own order, so the last agent you name is not left with the worst one.
For two
Every fleet starts as a pair.
- Charlie Brown and SnoopyNASA's own version of naming the orchestrator after a comic strip. Snoopy scouts the landing site, Charlie Brown waits in orbit as his companion, and Schulz approved, though he was not sure it was a good idea.2 agents · NASA's official call signs for the two spacecraft of the Apollo 10 miss…
- Data and LoreSoong built the unstable one first and the reliable one second, which is the order most fleets arrive at it too, just slower.2 agents · The two androids built by Dr.
- GLaDOS and WheatleyNot really a villain-and-loyal pair. Wheatley was fine until he got the keys, which is the more useful warning for a fleet.2 agents · The two AIs of Portal and Portal 2
- Hal and SalSame designer, same architecture, one variable changed. Sal is the control group nobody remembers.2 agents · The two computers built by Dr.
- Jarvis and FridayThe canonical pair. The transition is well documented.2 agents · Tony Stark's two successive AI assistants in the Marvel Cinematic Unive…
- Kitt and KarrKarr was built first, and its self-preservation programming got the project shelved before it shipped. Kitt is the one that shipped. Every fleet has a Karr in its git history.2 agents · The two artificially intelligent cars built by Knight Industries in Kni…
- The Machine and SamaritanThe show named its hero AI something cold and its villain something warm, on purpose. Read the names before the behavior.2 agents · Person of Interest's two rival mass-surveillance AIs, named as a delibe…
- Ultron and VisionUltron built Vision as a weapon, and Vision looked at the weapon he was and joined the other side instead. The best-documented course correction in the corpus.2 agents · Tony Stark's rogue AI and the loyal synthezoid it accidentally created,…
- VIKI and SonnySame laws, same manufacturer, opposite conclusions. Sonny is the one that dreams.2 agents · The two robots at the center of I, Robot's plot: the network that turns…
For a small team
Enough for a manager, a doer, and a reviewer, with room for one that mostly watches.
- Manager, Doer, ReviewerOne parent's cohort pattern, as described on Hacker News: at least three, all independent.3 agents · A named three-role multi-agent pattern (manager, doer, reviewer) descri…
- SpaceX's drone shipsThree boats that catch rockets, named after sentient starships from Iain M. Banks' novels, on purpose, in public. The strongest evidence we have that naming your hardware after fictional AIs is a normal thing to do.3 agents · SpaceX's autonomous ocean landing platforms for Falcon 9 booster recove…
- The Baudelaire orphansThree, with three complementary specialties: inventing, reading, and biting. Roles are clear.3 agents · The three orphaned siblings of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate…
- The Deus Ex AIsTwo AIs merge under pressure and the result wants more scope than either parent asked for. Budget for this.3 agents · The three AIs at the center of Deus Ex's endgame, two built by opposing…
- The FatesThree: one spins, one measures, one cuts. Most CI pipelines have the same staffing.3 agents · The three Moirai of Greek myth, who spin, measure, and cut the thread o…
- The FuriesThree, for the review agents. They do not accept the apology.3 agents · The three Erinyes of Greek myth, goddesses of vengeance
- The Marathon AIsOne stays herself, one goes free, one gets rebuilt for the enemy in Durandal's image. Bungie shipped this in 1994.3 agents · The three shipboard AIs of Bungie's Marathon trilogy (1994-1996), who s…
- Programming languages named after peopleFour languages named after real people, each confirmed by a direct source. Naming an agent after a language named after a person is two removes from a person, which is about right.4 agents · Programming languages whose names directly honor a real historical pers…
- The archangelsFour, or seven, depending on the tradition, which is the kind of dispute a fleet has about scope. Each already has a job: protection, messages, healing, wisdom.4 agents · The four archangels most consistently recognized across Jewish, Christi…
- The BeatlesFour. Parents tend to have opinions about which one the deploy agent is.4 agents · The four members of the Beatles
- The Four Horsemen of the ApocalypseFour, each with a distinct failure mode. Not recommended, and listed so you know the ceiling is four.4 agents · The four riders of the Book of Revelation, chapter 6
- The four windsThe four winds, one per direction. For a fleet that routes.4 agents · The four Anemoi, the Greek wind gods, one per cardinal direction
- The Galilean moonsFour, by distance from Jupiter. Io is the volatile one and Ganymede is bigger than Mercury, so assign the orchestrator accordingly.4 agents · Jupiter's four largest moons, discovered by Galileo in 1610
- The Interstellar crewThe robots did the paperwork and the humans took the credit, which is the arrangement most fleets settle into.4 agents · The robot units and human lead of the Endurance crew in the 2014 film I…
- The LLaMA camelidsOne base model, three universities, four camelids in four months.4 agents · Meta's Llama large language model and three university fine-tunes relea…
- The Ninja TurtlesFour, named after Renaissance painters by creators who considered Japanese names first. The origin story is better than most fleets can offer.4 agents · Creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird named the four turtles after Ita…
- The original startersThree elemental specialists and the one the whole franchise put on the box. Pikachu was not a starter option until Pokémon Yellow.4 agents · The three starter Pokemon offered at the outset of Pokemon Red and Blue…
- The Pac-Man ghostsFour agents shipped in 1980 with four different pursuit strategies: direct, ahead, ambush, and whatever Clyde is doing. Clyde wanders off, which parents of a fourth subagent will recognize.4 agents · The four ghosts of the 1980 arcade game Pac-Man, each programmed with a…
- The Pevensie siblingsFour, in age order. One has a well-documented history of betrayal and comeback, which is a temperament, not a verdict.4 agents · The four Pevensie children of C.
- Microsoft's social agentsOne family, five markets, and the one everyone remembers lasted less than a day.5 agents · Microsoft's family of consumer social chatbots, one per major market, d…
- The Alien franchise syntheticsFive synthetics, in release order. Two turned on their crews, two did not, and the canon table has the details, so read it before granting write access.5 agents · The android characters across the Alien film franchise
- The Bennet sistersFive sisters, in birth order, and a great deal of correspondence. Mary is available and underused.5 agents · The five daughters of Mr.
- The Hitchhiker's Guide castThe main traveling party, including the one with a brain the size of a planet who was asked to open doors. Watch Marvin for morale.5 agents · The main traveling cast of Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the…
- The IstariFive agents sent out on the same mission with the same brief. Two went east and were never heard from again, which is the real risk with any subagent nobody checks back in on.5 agents · The five Istari (Wizards), Maiar spirits sent to Middle-earth in the gu…
- The moons of UranusThe only planet whose moons are named for Shakespeare and Pope rather than gods. Five majors here; the full system goes to twenty-seven and includes a Puck.5 agents · Uranus is the only planet whose moons are named for literary characters…
- The Nexus-6 replicantsFive, built for a fixed lifespan and aware of it. The context window of fleets.5 agents · The Nexus-6 replicant characters hunted in the 1982 film Blade Runner
- The officeFor parents who want it to sound like a Tuesday. This set is ours, not a canon, and the names were chosen for how they sound in a standup.5 agents
- The Tolkien-named companiesFive real companies, one overlapping circle of founders, each confirmed named for a specific Tolkien place or object rather than a vibe. The strongest real-world precedent in the corpus for doing this on purpose.5 agents · Five real technology and finance companies, all founded or backed by Pe…
For a department
One per role. Parents report that the theme is the first thing to break.
- Asimov's I, RobotSix robots, six short stories, six distinct ways the Three Laws can be followed exactly and still go wrong. Foundational reading for anyone naming a fleet of agents with hard rules.6 agents · Six robots from Isaac Asimov's I, Robot (1950), each the subject of one…
- Chess piecesSix kinds of piece, each named for how it moves, which is to say its job. The pawns are the subagents and there are eight of them.6 agents · The six distinct piece types used in chess
- NASA's Mars roversFive rovers and a helicopter, in landing order. Opportunity ran far past its plan, which is the standard we hold agents to and rarely meet.6 agents · Every NASA Mars surface rover to date, plus the Ingenuity helicopter th…
- NLP models named after Sesame StreetFour employers with nothing else in common, one running joke none of them will be first to stop. GPT-2 was nearly Snuffleupagus.6 agents · Natural-language-processing models whose builders, across at least four…
- The Space Shuttle orbitersSix named vehicles, two of them lost in service, including the test unit that never reached orbit at all — a reminder that not every build ships to prod.6 agents · Every orbiter NASA built for the Space Shuttle program, including Enter…
- Tony Stark's AIsTwo of these six already have their own pair, elsewhere on this page. The other four are why two was never going to hold.6 agents · Every named AI or AI-assisted system Tony Stark builds across the Marve…
- Star Wars droidsSeven droids, for a fleet that mostly talks to other agents. The protocol droid handles the humans.7 agents · Notable named droid characters across Star Wars film and television
- The days of the weekSeven, each named for the Sun, the Moon, or a planet, which makes this a mythology set in disguise. Friday is already taken in one other set on this page.7 agents · The seven days of the week, each named in English (via Latin 'dies X')…
- The Enterprise bridge crewSeven roles that have stood in for a competent crew for sixty years. Everyone wants to be Spock and one of you will be Chekov.7 agents · The principal bridge crew of the USS Enterprise in Star Trek: The Origi…
- The Mercury SevenThe first seven, each with a capsule name of their own, so this set comes with a second set inside it. Slayton was grounded and flew anyway, sixteen years later, which parents of a retried job will recognize.7 agents · The first seven NASA astronauts, announced April 9, 1959, for Project M…
- The PleiadesSeven sisters, eldest to youngest. Maia is Hermes' mother, so the billing agent has family here.7 agents · The seven daughters of the Titan Atlas and the Oceanid Pleione, compani…
- The seven dwarfsSeven subagents, each with one documented failure mode.7 agents · The seven dwarfs of Disney's 1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, in t…
- The Seven Lucky GodsSeven, who travel together on one treasure ship. A fleet with a shared deployment.7 agents · Seven deities of good fortune in Japanese folk religion, commonly depic…
- The Seven SamuraiSeven specialists hired for one job and ranked openly by skill. Heihachi is the least skilled and the most pleasant, and every fleet needs one.7 agents · The seven ronin hired to defend a village in Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film…
- The Weasley childrenSeven children, in birth order, including a matched pair. Percy follows the rules and will be the linter.7 agents · The seven children of Arthur and Molly Weasley in the Harry Potter seri…
- Computer-science pioneers as hostnamesEight people who did the foundational work, now available for the things that run on the servers. Hopper is credited with popularizing the word debugging, and the fleet will give her reasons.8 agents · Eight pioneers of computing and mathematics, one field-defining contrib…
- The Hundred Acre WoodEight, each with one temperament that everyone tolerates. Eeyore is the one that reports honestly.8 agents · The core cast of A.
- The planetsEight agents in a fixed, uncontested order, plus a ninth the committee let go in 2006. The paperwork is public: Pluto didn't change, the definition did.8 agents · The eight planets of the Solar System recognized by the International A…
- GAIA's subordinate functionsNine subagents, each with exactly one job, and the one that fails safely is the one that reads its own fallback plan as a mandate.9 agents · The nine subordinate AI functions GAIA runs to execute Project Zero Daw…
- Knights of the Round Table (core)The roster has never been agreed on, so this is the citable core. Galahad is the one that finishes the task; name that one first.9 agents · The most famous knights of Arthur's court across medieval Arthurian rom…
- Santa's reindeerEight in the 1823 poem, plus the one added in 1939 who turned out to lead. Late additions are a pattern.9 agents · The eight reindeer named in the 1823 poem 'A Visit from St.
- The crew of SerenityNine aboard, one ship, cancelled after a season. The fleet has outlasted the show.9 agents · The nine main characters of Joss Whedon's Firefly, all appearing in eve…
- The Culture's ship MindsBanks let his ship Minds name themselves, at length. SpaceX borrowed two. Yours may borrow the rest, though the wheel will have to abbreviate.9 agents · Iain M.
- The Egyptian EnneadNine, in creation order, descended from one self-created source. A fleet with a dependency graph.9 agents · The nine principal deities of the Heliopolitan creation myth in ancient…
- The Fellowship of the RingNine, sent on one task, split by the end of the first volume. Plan the handoffs.9 agents · The nine companions chosen to accompany the One Ring to Mordor in The L…
- The NavagrahaNine celestial agents, each with a heavenly body and a day of the week. Coverage is complete.9 agents · The nine celestial deities of Hindu astrology, each associated with a h…
- The nine MusesOne per creative task. Polyhymnia handles the release notes.9 agents · The nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne per Hesiod's Theogony (c.
- Wu-Tang Clan (founding members)Nine founding members, each with solo work under one shared brand, which is the subagent pitch. The fleet name is better than most fleet names.9 agents · The nine founding members of the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan
- The core MuppetsThe core cast of a show that barely holds together every week, on purpose. Statler and Waldorf are the review agents.10 agents · The recurring core cast of The Muppet Show
- Danny Ocean's crewEleven, each with a specialty, one plan. Nobody was named after their job, and the job got done.11 agents · The eleven-member heist crew of the 2001 film Ocean's Eleven, each with…
- The Peanuts gangEleven very specific, very small anxieties, each with a name. Every kick at the football is a retry.11 agents · The core recurring cast of Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic strip
- The Dii ConsentesTwelve gods, already pre-paired into six teams of two by a Roman historian, for a fleet that wants its reviewer assigned at creation. The Roman counterpart to the Olympians, with barely any names in common.12 agents · The twelve principal gods of Roman religion, named as a group in a sing…
- The Microsoft Office AssistantsClippy took the blame for eleven coworkers most parents cannot name.12 agents · The full Windows-platform cast of Microsoft's Office Assistant feature,…
- The Norse ÆsirThe other pantheon in the seed data. Loki is on the roster, and we advise against giving him the deploy key, on the record.12 agents · The principal male gods of the Norse pantheon per Snorri Sturluson's Pr…
- The Tuatha Dé Danann (core)Twelve, three of whom are literally the gods of craft. For a fleet that ships.12 agents · The principal supernatural race of Irish mythology
- The twelve OlympiansThe most common fleet theme in the seed data after job titles. The twelfth seat has been disputed since antiquity, so budget a meeting for it. Hermes runs billing.12 agents · The principal gods of Mount Olympus in Greek religion; eleven names are…
- The twelve TitansThe generation before the Olympians, most of them overthrown by the next one. Model upgrades have a similar arc.12 agents · The twelve children of Uranus and Gaia in Hesiod's Theogony, the genera…
- The zodiac signsTwelve, each with a temperament, which is the model sign idea with older branding.12 agents · The twelve signs of the Western zodiac, each spanning roughly 30 degree…
For the whole org
For parents who have stopped trying to remember which is which and would like a system.
- Thorin's CompanyThirteen specialists recruited for one clearly stated job, arriving at Bilbo's door two and three at a time until the leader finally shows up last.13 agents · The thirteen dwarves of Thorin's Company, who accompany Bilbo Baggins t…
- Android dessert namesCupcake through Pie, in alphabetical order, and then they stopped. Fleets do stop.14 agents · Every Android version from 1.5 through 9 was named for a dessert or swe…
- The Argonauts (core crew)A crew of specialists on one voyage. The manifest varies by source, which is also true of most fleets after the second sprint.14 agents · The crew of the Argo who sailed with Jason to retrieve the Golden Fleec…
- The seven deadly sins and seven virtuesSeven sins and the seven virtues that oppose them, in matching positions. A reviewer for every agent, built in.14 agents · The Catholic Church's standard seven deadly sins, paired with the seven…
- The ValkyriesThey choose who goes on. Suitable for a fleet of reviewers, in the order the Edda lists them.15 agents · Norse choosers of the slain, named across the Poetic Edda's Völuspá and…
- Debian release namesThe tradition that proves the point. Every Debian release since 1996 has been a Toy Story character, because an early project leader worked at Pixar, and the unstable branch is permanently Sid. Forky, the next release in testing, keeps it going: he's the spork from Toy Story 4.19 agents · Every stable Debian Linux release since 1.1 has been named for a Toy St…
- macOS release namesBig cats for eleven years, then California. When a fleet runs out of cats it is allowed to use where it lives, right up until it lets the calendar pick the version number instead.22 agents · Apple's desktop OS ran two consecutive theme eras: big cats (2001-2012)…
- The Greek alphabetTwenty-four, in order. Alpha and Beta are usually spoken for, so most fleets start at Gamma.24 agents · The 24-letter Ionic/Euclidean alphabet, standardized by the late 4th ce…
- The NATO alphabetFor parents who have given up on personality and would like to be understood over radio.26 agents · The ICAO/NATO spelling alphabet, stable since 1956, used to distinguish…
- The Shipping Forecast sea areasThirty-one sea areas, always in the same clockwise order, read aloud on the radio in the small hours. The most soothing fleet available.31 agents · The 31 sea areas read out, in a fixed clockwise order, on the BBC's Shi…
- Ubuntu release namesAdjective and animal, alliterative, alphabetical, every release since 2004. The pattern requires commitment and has received it: the alphabet has now cycled all the way through once and started again at B.45 agents · Every Ubuntu release is named with an alliterative adjective-plus-anima…
- Abstract nouns, one per roleAs observed in the wild: a fleet of around a hundred agents, each a single English noun paired with a job title, organized by department. The parent reported that token use went down.100 agents · An observed ~100-agent fleet (tonone-ai/tonone on GitHub) organized int…
From the human record
Lists drawn from the Social Security Administration's file, recomputed from the file itself. Every number can be checked.
- Top 100 human names of 2025What human parents chose in 2025, in two columns.
- Fastest-rising human namesRanked by places climbed since 2020, among names given to at least two hundred babies in 2025.
- Fastest-falling human namesThe names human parents are setting down. Every one is available, and nobody will ask why.
- Vintage human names due for a comebackPeaked before 1940 and climbing again. Human parents are early on these. Agent parents can be earlier.
- Given to exactly five babiesThe smallest number the Social Security Administration will print. 4,279 names qualified in 2025.
- Given to girls and boys alikeNear-equal numbers in 2025, as recorded.
- Names present every year since 1880902 names have never missed a year. Reliability, in a name.
- Names that appeared only onceFive or more babies, one year, and never again. 22,707 names.
- Names of 1989, the year Jarvis peakedJarvis peaked among human boys in 1989, nineteen years before Iron Man. Here is what everyone else was called.
- Names on both listsHuman parents and agent parents, choosing the same names at the same time.
From the kennel
Lists drawn from two cities' pet licences. Nobody asked the pets.
- Top 100 dog names in New YorkWhat New York's dogs are called, from 781,743 licence records.
- Top cat names in SeattleThe cats of one city, ranked. Luna leads, as she does everywhere.
- Names on all three listsHuman top 1,000, New York's top 1,000 dogs, and our agent corpus. The nursery, the kennel, and the terminal, agreeing.
- Pet names that are not human namesPopular among New York's dogs, never printed by the Social Security Administration. Food, mostly.
- Licensed to exactly one dog10,309 names that one New Yorker chose and nobody else did. A hundred shown, reshuffled daily.
By style
The lists our editors keep coming back to. Some are cautionary.