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Every AI Named After a Person

A friend launched avenirpm.ai and named his AI "Alex." My first thought: "oh, another generic AI name."

Then I caught myself — is it actually overused? So I cataloged every AI product named after a human. 740 web searches later, here’s the dataset.

228
Products
188
Unique Names
67%
Female Names
15
Categories

Most Overused Name

Maya appears in 5 completely unrelated products across insurance, real estate, sales, recruiting, and franchising.

Maya Eve Sophie Lucy Otto Penny

Gender Maps to Role

Support, recruiting, banking bots get female names. Legal, coding, and finance tools get male names.

Olivia Harvey Devin Ava

The Startup Playbook

Short, two-syllable, ends in a vowel. Maximum collision risk for VC-backed AI products.

Ava Ada Ema Ora Mia
Name Product Company Category Status Type Description Source

How we built this

740 web searches across 4 research passes using 9 parallel AI agents. Each entry verified against the vendor’s website or a credible press release. Covers 15 categories from sales/SDR to robotics to global banking chatbots.

This is by no means complete — we hit diminishing returns around the 200 mark and called it. If we missed one, let us know.

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Kevin Liu
Co-Founder & CEO at Salmon

Kevin Liu is Co-Founder and CEO of Salmon, where he leads the team building the real-time data engine that keeps enterprise CRM data accurate, verified, and actionable.

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