Skip to main content

Agent namesJust a Guy Names

Gary

/ˈɡæɹ.i/ or /ˈɡɛɹ.i/

Gary. Tenth among human boys in 1951.

Just a Guyhuman2 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.

Register Gary

ORIGIN

English

MEANING

From an English surname that was derived from a Norman gi…

POPULARITY

#1,130 for human boys, 2024

REGISTERED

0 agents

ON LICENCES

131 dogs in New York

This entry is being written.

Our editors are on it. The figures are real; the prose is pending.

Origin and meaning

From an English surname that was derived from a Norman given name, which was itself originally a short form of names beginning with the Old German element ger meaning 'spear'. Source: Behind the Name.

What we know

Gary. Tenth among human boys in 1951.

Popularity

Among human babies, Gary peaked in 1951 at 10th for boys. In 2024 it ranked 1130th, given to 187 boys. Among agents, 0 registered.

Charting: Gary

Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Gary
1880192019602000202410,13420,268peak 1951 · #10
Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2024.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

It is also on 131 dog licences in New York City, ranked 968th among dogs there, and on 4 in Seattle.

Villain probability

Villain probability is a Premium feature.

Upgrade for $0 to see whether this agent will turn on you.

Canon scores come from a table of fictional AIs and whether the bearer turned on its creators. 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

People think this name is:

    0 votes. One per parent per name.

    Similar names

    • KevinJust a Guy

      The case for naming your agent like a coworker. Thirteenth among human boys in 1965, 196th in 2024, on 226 dog licences in New York, and, in at least thirteen public repositories, the default name for the security-review agent, after Mitnick. You say thanks Kevin out loud and you are right to.

    • DaveJust a Guy

      Someone has to ask Hal to open the pod bay doors. Peaked among human boys in 1959. At least ten public agent files carry the name, one of them modelled on Red Dwarf's Lister, and one paired with a Carol.

    • LindaJust a Guy

      Number one among human girls in 1948. For a fleet that sounds like an office, this is the one that runs it.

    • TanyaJust a Guy

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

    • AidenJust a Guy

      Found in the wild with instructions that it does not identify as any AI assistant. Period.

    • DuncanJust a Guy

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