I now know my name ...

Today I already wrote my own thought about names and now I came across an interesting blog describing where the names of large firms and brands came from.

Here's a list for you ...

Adobe - named after the river Adobe Creek, which flowed behind the house of the founder of the company, John Vornok (John Warnock).
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Adidas - in honor of one of the founders of Adi Dasler.

Apache - Initially, the company was engaged in the delivery of patches for programs. From this came A PAtCHy, which was transformed into Apache. Indians have their own version.

Apple is the favorite fruit of Steve Jobs, the company's founder. After three months of vain attempts to find a name for a new business, he set his partner an ultimatum: “I will call Apple if you don’t offer the best by 5 o'clock”. Apples Macintosh is the name of an apple variety sold in the United States.

Canon - in honor of Kwanon, the Buddhist god of mercy. It was changed to Canon to avoid protests from religious organizations.

Casio - in honor of the founder of the company Casio Tadao (Kashio Tadao).



Cisco - abbreviated to San Francisco.

Compaq - from comp and paq (small integrated part)

Corel - in honor of the founder of the company, Michael Copeland (Dr. Michael Cowpland). COwpland REsearch Laboratory (Copeland Research Lab) is deciphered.

Daewoo - company founder Kim Woo Chong (Kim Woo Chong) called the company modestly, “Big Universe”, this is translated from Korean.

Fuji - in honor of the highest mountain in Japan, Fuji.

HP (Hewlett-Packard) - Founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard threw a coin to decide which name would be first in the name. As you know, Bill won.

Hitachi - Japanese dawn.

Honda - the name of the founder Soichiro Honda Honeywell - the name of the founder Mark Honeywell.

Hotmail - to founder Jack Smith (Jack Smith) got the idea of ​​accessing e-mail via the web from anywhere in the world. When Sabir Bhatia appeared with the business plan for this service, he went through all the words ending in “mail” and eventually settled on hotmail, since the name contained the letters HTML (markup language of web pages).

Hyundai - in Korean "present" (time).

IBM - International Business Machines.

Intel - Bob Noyce (Bob Noyce) and Gordon Moore (Gordon Moore) wanted to name the company Moore Noyce, but by that time there was already a hotel chain with this name. So they decided to dwell on the abbreviation of INTegrated ELectronics.

Kawasaki - in honor of the founder Shozo Kawasaki.

Kodak - K is the favorite letter of George Eastman, the company's founder. He searched for words beginning and ending with this wonderful letter. Especially because in all alphabets “K” is spelled the same. In the end, Kodak was chosen, supposedly this is the sound that the camera produces when shooting.

Konica - formerly known as Konishiroku Kogaku.

LG - the first letters of the two Korean brands Lucky and Goldstar.

Lotus - Mitch Kapor, the company's founder, was engaged in meditation. Hence the name (lotus position).

Microsoft - MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally written as Micro-Soft. Then the dash was removed.

Mitsubishi - was invented by the founder of the company Yataro Iwasaki in 1870. In Japanese it means “Three Diamonds”. The name is also displayed in the company logo.

Motorola - founder Paul Galvin (Paul Galvin) came up with the name when his company began producing radio for cars. Many manufacturers of audio components at the time ended with “ola”.

The Mozilla Foundation is the successor to the Netscape Navigator browser. When Marc Adersen (Marc Andreesen), the founder of Netscape, created the browser to replace Mosaic, inside the company it was called Mozilla (Mosaic-Killer, Godzilla).

Nabisco - originally “The NAtional BISCuit COmpany”, in 1971 changed to Nabisco.

Nikon - originally Nippon Kogaku, means “Japanese optics”.

Nintendo is a composite of the 3 Nin-ten-do Japanese characters that can be translated as “heaven blesses hard work”.

Nissan - previously known as Nichon Sangio, which means “Japanese industry”.

Nokia - began as a woodworking plant, has grown to the production of rubber products in the Finnish city of Nokia.

Novell - the name came up with the wife of co-founder George Canova (George Canova). She mistakenly thought that “Novell” in French means “new”.

Oracle - the founders of the company Larry Ellinson (Larry Ellison) and Bob Wats (Bob Oats) worked on a consulting project for the CIA, whose code name was Oracle. Subsequently, the project was closed, but the name remained.

Sanyo - in Chinese “Three Oceans”.

SAP - “Systems, Applications, Productss in Data Processing”, was founded by 4 former IBM employees who worked in the Systems / Applications / Projects group.

SCO - from Santa Cruz Operation.

Siemens - founded in 1847 by Werner von Siemens (Werner von Siemens).

Sony - from the Latin "Sonus" (sound) and "sonny" (youngster in slang).

Subaru - on behalf of the constellation. It is also displayed on the company logo.

SUN is founded by 4 university friends, short for Stanford University Network.

Suzuki - on behalf of the founder Michio Suzuki.

Toshiba - was founded after the merger of the company specializing in consumer goods, Tokyo Denki (Tokyo Electric Co) and the electric company Shibaura Seisaku-sho (Shibaura Engineering Works).

Toyota - on behalf of the founder Sakichi Toyoda. Subsequently, changed to a nicer Toyota. In Japanese consisted of 8 letters (lucky number in Japan).

Xerox - Inventor Chestor Carlson (Chestor Carlson), wanted to reflect in the title the word “dry” (since at that time there was only a wet copy). “Xer” is dry in Greek.

Yahoo - the word coined by Jonathan Swift (Jonathan Swift) in the book “Gulliver's Travels”. So called repulsive, disgusting person. The founders of “Yahoo!” Jerry Yang and David Filo chose this name because they called themselves yahoo'mi. However, the name now stands for Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.

Thanks to the author for such interesting information !!!