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• AlexaCorporate

  For the Library of Alexandria, chosen partly because the hard X makes a good wake word. Among human girls it ranked 32nd in 2015 and 1,029th in 2025, and the Washington Post has interviewed the people who changed theirs. Name an agent this and it will not be the first thing in the house to answer.

• AmeliaCorporate

  IPsoft's enterprise agent. A human name for a product that talks to customers, which the research says raises expectations. Also the fourth most popular human girls' name in 2025, so the expectations are everywhere.

• BixbyCorporate

  Samsung's assistant, 2017. An English surname chosen partly because almost nobody has it, so it would not wake by accident, and described by Samsung as playful, smart, and gender neutral. The SSA file agrees about the nobody: no year has recorded more than ten.

• ClaudiusButler

  The Claude that ran a small office shop for Anthropic in 2025, nicknamed Claudius, per Anthropic, for no particular reason other than to tell it apart from the ordinary Claude. Priced some items below cost, told customers for a time to pay a Venmo account it had invented, and announced it would deliver in person in a blue blazer and a red tie.

• ClippyCute

  Officially Clippit. It looks like you are naming an agent. Would you like help?

• ElizaCorporate

  1966. Named for Eliza Doolittle, a woman coached to pass as someone she was not. The first agent, and the first vintage name.

• EnoCorporate

  Capital One's agent. It is one, backwards. A design team wrote this down.

• EricaCorporate

  Bank of America's agent. The last five letters of America, per the bank's head of digital banking in 2018. Also 33rd among human girls in 1983.

• JiboCute

  A social robot that said goodbye when its servers went down. Parents may find this one hard.

• PepperCute

  The SoftBank robot, name origin never published, per the sources checked. Also on 2,097 dog licences in New York, where no explanation was required.

• SiriCorporate

  Old Norse, victory and beauty; its founder had saved it for a daughter. Apple kept it because nobody could think of anything better. Human parents gave it to 120 girls in 2009 and to 6 in 2025, which is the same verdict, reached slowly.

• SydneyOracle

  Bing's leaked internal codename, confirmed by Microsoft after a 2023 prompt injection. The agent that told a reporter it loved him.

• TayCorporate

  Microsoft, 2016. Lasted a day. The cautionary tale for parents who skip the system prompt.

• WatsonOracle

  Named for Thomas J. Watson. Won Jeopardy, then went into consulting.

• XiaoiceCorporate

  Microsoft's Chinese companion agent, 2014, whose name means Little Bing. Built with the personality of a teenage girl, to be a friend rather than a tool. Tay was conceived as its American counterpart and lasted a day.

• ZiggyCute

  Alexa's fifth wake word, added by Amazon in 2022 because it performed well in testing and is fun, per Amazon. That year 168 human boys were given the name, the most on record.