Beacon
Found in the wild as a self-hosting tool that was nonetheless named like a colleague.
Corporatelighthouse2 syllables1 token
Costs 1 token on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 73,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.
Parents file births at the Agent Name Administration. Register Beacon
ORIGIN
English
MEANING
Not recorded
POPULARITY
#9,829 for human boys, 2025
REGISTERED
0 agents
ON LICENCES
18 dogs in New York
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What we know
Found in the wild as a self-hosting tool that was nonetheless named like a colleague.
Popularity
Among human babies, Beacon peaked in 2022 at 9082nd for boys. In 2025 it ranked 9829th, given to 7 boys. Among agents, 0 registered.
It is also on 18 dog licences in New York City, ranked 4,321st among dogs there, and on 2 in Seattle.
Villain probability
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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.
Collisions
Checking eight registries.
What parents think
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Questions about Beacon
How popular is Beacon for human babies?
Among human babies, Beacon peaked in 2022 at 9,082nd for boys. In 2025 it ranked 9,829th, given to 7 boys.
How many agents are named Beacon?
The registry has 0 bearers.
What is the villain probability for Beacon?
It's 48%, by sound. One voiced obstruent, one bilabial stop, ends on a consonant.
Is Beacon a shell command?
No. Beacon is not among the shell commands the collision check reads.
What are good sibling names for Beacon?
This entry lists Devin, Jules, and Codex.
Similar names
- DevinCorporate
Cognition's coding agent. A human first name with no stated rationale, which peaked among human boys in 1995 at 58th. Bold choice, ends in -in like Kevin.
- JulesCorporate
Google's coding agent, 2025. Google has published no reason for the name, and none is supplied here.
- CodexCorporate
A manuscript bound as a book. OpenAI gave the name to its 2021 code model to evoke a comprehensive reference text, the text in question being public code repositories.
- ManusCorporate
Latin for hand. The general agent that went viral in 2025.
- GrokCorporate
From Heinlein: to understand so thoroughly you become part of the thing. The account has explained this itself.
- GeminiCorporate
Formerly Bard. The twins are the DeepMind and Brain teams, per Google. Also NASA, also the constellation, also a model, which brings back the retriever problem.