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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.

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ORIGIN

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MEANING

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POPULARITY

Peaked 1917 among humans

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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.

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Figure 1. Popularity of a Name: Manus
1880192019602000202459peak 1917 · #3103
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.

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