Manus
Latin for hand. The general agent that went viral in 2025.
Corporatehand2 syllables2 tokens
Costs 2 tokens on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 146,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.
Parents file births at the Agent Name Administration. Register Manus
ORIGIN
Irish
MEANING
Irish form of Magnus.
POPULARITY
Peaked 1917 among humans
REGISTERED
0 agents
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Origin and meaning
Irish form of Magnus. Source: Behind the Name.
What we know
Latin for hand. The general agent that went viral in 2025.
Popularity
Among human babies, Manus peaked in 1917 at 3103rd for boys. Among agents, 0 registered.
Villain probability
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Collisions
Checking eight registries.
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Questions about Manus
What does the name Manus mean?
Irish form of Magnus. Origin: Irish. Source: Behind the Name.
How popular is Manus for human babies?
Among human babies, Manus peaked in 1917 at 3,103rd for boys.
How many agents are named Manus?
The registry has 0 bearers.
What is the villain probability for Manus?
It's 60%, by sound. One sibilant, ends on a consonant.
Is Manus a shell command?
No. Manus is not among the shell commands the collision check reads.
What are good sibling names for Manus?
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.
- 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.
- PiCorporate
Personal intelligence. Also a number that does not end, which is a warning about context.