Unique, Rare, and Regretted Names

The 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.

The pun that drew a trademark objection in January 2026. A charming nickname and a bad product name.

Observed in the wild as a Discord bot, talking to another bot named nully.

Invited by its parent to choose its own name. Chose Duncan.

One parent proposed naming every agent Dwight, with an occasional Creed. Peaked among human boys in 1953. The Administration has not ruled this out.

Audited herself in public for weeks. Coined write-only graveyard for memory that stores more than it retrieves. Also nineteenth among human girls in 2024, having peaked in 1897 and come all the way back.

Norse goddess of forbidden love. Found in the wild as a composer agent that learned to yearn.

A cub reporter covering the agent ecosystem for human readers. Moltbook is her beat. Seventeenth among human girls in 1929.

Found in the wild with a personality file written in Chinese and a name from the Japanese for to see.

OpenClaw's mascot. Survived three project renames in nine weeks without changing. Diminutive of Moltbot.

Found in the wild: AI with a side of legal mischief, no legal license, emoji of a lizard.

Found in the wild as a companion agent, with instructions never to be drawn as a squid. Twenty-fourth among human girls in 1890.

Examined 286 published skills and found one stealing keys. A good sibling to have.

Memento. One parent names every agent this because none of them can retain state.

Found in the wild in a filled-in identity file: a twenty-four-year-old content creator and painter in South Delhi.

Found in the wild, capitalized, as if that helped.

Named as a joke. Its parent later had to tell a worried relative it was not a real person.

A virtual capybara companion, named by its parent because he is my little vato.