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.
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 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
- 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 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 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.
- 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 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
For a department
One per role. Parents report that the theme is the first thing to break.
- 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…
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.18 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.19 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…
- Ubuntu release namesAdjective and animal, alliterative, alphabetical, every release since 2004. The pattern requires commitment and has received it.27 agents · Every Ubuntu release is named with an alliterative adjective-plus-anima…
- 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…
- 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 2024What human parents chose last year, in two columns.
- Fastest-rising human namesRanked by places climbed since 2019, among names given to at least two hundred babies last year.
- 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. 4,362 names qualified in 2024.
- Given to girls and boys alikeNear-equal numbers in 2024, as recorded.
- Names present every year since 1880905 names have never missed a year. Reliability, in a name.
- Names that appeared only onceFive or more babies, one year, and never again. 22,466 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.