{"id":44795,"date":"2018-06-01T23:01:17","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T15:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/?p=44795"},"modified":"2020-09-11T19:00:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T11:00:41","slug":"where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Where These Companies Got Their Names From &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a gamut of products and services we use on daily basis, a lot of which we immediately recognize from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/logo-evolution\/\">their logo<\/a> or even the tagline. However, most of us don\u2019t know the real meaning or the origin of these names. Though it may not be on top of your \u2018things to know\u2019 list, but it won\u2019t hurt to <strong>know the background of the things we interact with so often<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>So, here is a list of top companies with interesting information about where they got their names from. Let\u2019s check them out.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ref-block ref-block--post\" id=\"ref-post-1\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/behind-names-of-top-tech-companies-part2\/\" class=\"ref-block__link\" title=\"Read More: Where These Companies Got Their Names From \u2013 Part 2\" rel=\"bookmark\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where These Companies Got Their Names From \u2013 Part 2<\/span><\/a>\n<div class=\"ref-block__thumbnail img-thumb img-thumb--jumbo\" data-img='{ \"src\" : \"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/thumbs\/250x160\/behind-names-of-top-tech-companies-part2.jpg\" }'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<noscript>\n<style>.no-js #ref-block-post-16374 .ref-block__thumbnail { background-image: url(\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/thumbs\/250x160\/behind-names-of-top-tech-companies-part2.jpg\"); }<\/style>\n<\/noscript>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"ref-block__summary\">\n<h4 class=\"ref-title\">Where These Companies Got Their Names From \u2013 Part 2<\/h4>\n<p class=\"ref-description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThere's a story behind everything, especially the big brand names that we use so often in our day...\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>Read more<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Adobe<\/h2>\n<p>The name came from the <strong>river Adobe Creek<\/strong> that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/adobe.jpg\" alt=\"Adobe logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/figure>\n<h2>Alphabet (Google)<\/h2>\n<p>In 2015, Larry Page, then CEO of Google, announced the company restructure in a major announcement, thus creating its parent company named \u201cAlphabet\u201d. He said, \u201cWe liked the name <strong>Alphabet because it means a collection of letters that represent language<\/strong>, one of humanity\u2019s most important innovations, and is the core of how we index with Google search!<\/p>\n<p>We also like that it means alpha-bet (Alpha is investment return above benchmark), which we strive for!\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/alphaet-google.jpg\" alt=\"Alphabet logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/figure>\n<h2>Amazon<\/h2>\n<p>The founder wanted <strong>something \u201cexotic and different\u201d and chose Amazon<\/strong>, pulling references between world\u2019s largest river Amazon river and what he envisions his company to be \u2013 real big.<\/p>\n<p>This name, along with the site\u2019s tagline \u201cEarth\u2019s biggest book store\u201d, suggested scale.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/amazon.jpg\" alt=\"Amazon logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Amazon Kindle:<\/strong> If you\u2019re wondering what \"Kindle\" in Amazon Kindle means, it\u2019s <strong>\u2018to light a fire\u2019<\/strong> and the Kindle e-reader was meant to rekindle the excitement of reading and gaining new knowledge.<\/p>\n<h2>Apache<\/h2>\n<p>It got its name because its founders got started by <strong>applying patches to code written for NCSA\u2019s httpd daemon<\/strong>. The result was \u2018A PAtCHy\u2019 server; thus, the name Apache.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/apache.jpg\" alt=\"Apache logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/figure>\n<h2>Apple<\/h2>\n<p>Steve Jobs was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers (after his favorite fruit) if the other colleagues didn\u2019t suggest a better name by 5 o\u2019clock. Hence, the name Apple was finalized.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/apple.jpg\" alt=\"Apple logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/figure>\n<h2>Cisco<\/h2>\n<p>The name is not an acronym but an <strong>abbreviation of San Francisco<\/strong>. The company\u2019s logo reflects its San Francisco name heritage. It represents a stylized Golden Gate Bridge.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/cisco.jpg\" alt=\"Cisco logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/figure>\n<h2>Dell<\/h2>\n<p>When Michael Dell, the founder and the CEO of the company, was working from his University\u2019s dorm room, he gave his company the name \u201cPCs Limited\u201d. In 1987, he came up with the name \u201cDell Computer Corporation\u201d, while focusing on its global expansion.<\/p>\n<p>In 2003, it again <strong>changed to \u201cDell Inc.\u201d to recognize its other businesses<\/strong> apart from its traditional business of selling PCs.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/dell.jpg\" alt=\"Dell logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/figure>\n<h2>Facebook<\/h2>\n<p>Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook while studying at Harvard University in 2004. He named the network as \u201cThe facebook\u201d <strong>after the sheets of paper given to freshmen for profiling them<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Later in 2005, when he was able to get the domain \u201cfacebook.com\u201d, it got to the final name \u201cFacebook\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/facebook.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/figure>\n<h2>Flickr<\/h2>\n<p>Someone else had Flicker.com so the <strong>founders dropped an \u2018e\u2019 to keep the name<\/strong>. It turned out pretty well for them since they spell flickr over the phone a lot, making the name stick out and easy to remember.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/flickr.jpg\" alt=\"Flickr logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/figure>\n<h2>Hewlett Packard<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin<\/strong> to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett. Guess who won.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/hp.jpg\" alt=\"Hewlett Packard logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/figure>\n<h2>HTC<\/h2>\n<p>The name \u201cHTC\u201d is an <strong>acronym for \u201cHigh Tech Computer Corporation\u201d<\/strong>. The story behind HTC\u2019s establishment goes back to 1997, when Cher Mi Wang, Taiwan\u2019s one of the richest and influential dames, partnered with HT Chao and Peter Chao to found HTC.<\/p>\n<p>The company was started as an effort to blend the functionalities of a personal assistant and a phone, i.e., create a smartphone.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/htc.jpg\" alt=\"HTC logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/figure>\n<h2>IBM<\/h2>\n<p>In June 1911, the company was formed as a <strong>merger of three manufacturing companies<\/strong> under the name of \u201cThe Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company\u201d. By 1924, Thomas Watson Sr., the then CEO of the company, renamed C-T-R to \u201cInternational Business Machines\u201d to <strong>promote its expansion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/ibm.jpg\" alt=\"IBM logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/figure>\n<h2>Instagram<\/h2>\n<p>The founders of Instagram wanted a name that <strong>describes the act of \u2018recording\u2019 something<\/strong> \u2018right here, right now\u2019.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/instagram.jpg\" alt=\"Instagram logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/figure>\n<h2>Intel<\/h2>\n<p>Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company \u2018Moore Noyce\u2019 but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain, so they had to settle for an <strong>acronym of INTegrated ELectronics<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/intel.jpg\" alt=\"Intel logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/figure>\n<h2>Joomla<\/h2>\n<p>Jumla (in Swahili) <strong>means \u201cAll Together\u201d or \u201cAs a Whole\u201d<\/strong>, and was chosen from thousands of suggestions. The name was tweaked a bit for a phonetic alternative.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/joomla.jpg\" alt=\"Joomla logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/figure>\n<h2>Microsoft<\/h2>\n<p>It was coined by Bill Gates to represent the <strong>company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware<\/strong>. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the hyphen was removed later on.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/microsoft.jpg\" alt=\"Microsoft logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/figure>\n<h2>Motorola<\/h2>\n<p>Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/motorola.jpg\" alt=\"Motorola logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/figure>\n<h2>Mozilla<\/h2>\n<p>Mozilla is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/portmanteaus\/\"> portmanteau <\/a> (a word blending the sounds and combining the meanings of multiple words) of the <strong> words \u201cMosaic\u201d (which was the browser which contributed to the popularity of the web) and \u201cGodzilla\u201d <\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/mozilla.jpg\" alt=\"Mozilla logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/figure>\n<h2>Netflix<\/h2>\n<p>Netflix is a blended word that carries the words <strong>\u201cnet\u201d from the word \u201cinternet\u201d and a stylized version of flicks, flix<\/strong>, which meaning movies. Thus combining both terms give the name \u201cNetflix\u201d, meaning online movies portal.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/netflix.jpg\" alt=\"Netflix logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/figure>\n<h2>Oracle<\/h2>\n<p>Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something like that).<\/p>\n<p>Though the <strong>project eventually was terminated but the founders decided to finish<\/strong> what they started and thus brought Oracle to the world.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/oracle.jpg\" alt=\"Oracle logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/figure>\n<h2>Qualcom<\/h2>\n<p>In 1985, its seven founders came together in San Diego to discuss an idea. They agreed and decided to create a company called <strong>\u201cQuality Communications\u201d<\/strong>. Their plan evolved into a company we now know as \u201cQualcomm\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/qualcomm.jpg\" alt=\"Qualcom logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/figure>\n<h2>Quora<\/h2>\n<p>Quora was founded by the Facebook employees Adam D\u2019Angelo and Charlie Cheever. Mr. Cheever stated that \u201cI <strong>associate it with \u2018quorum\u2019 or public congregation<\/strong>.\u201d \u201cThe closest competition that Quora had was \u2018Quiver\u2019 but we eventually settled on Quora,\u201d .<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/quora.jpg\" alt=\"Quora logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/figure>\n<h2>Sega<\/h2>\n<p>The word \u201cSega\u201d is an <strong>acronym for \u201cService Games\u201d<\/strong>. The company was initially into the business of creating coin-based amusement machines, which were planned to get stationed at military bases, seeing the demand during the verge of World War II.<\/p>\n<p>That is why it was officially styled as \u201cSEGA\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/sega.jpg\" alt=\"Sega logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/figure>\n<h2>Shazam<\/h2>\n<p>The <strong>word Shazam means \u201cwizardry\u201d<\/strong>. The founders chose this name for their company as well as the app because their app, Shazam, recognizes a song being played almost like magic, as a human acknowledges.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/shazam.jpg\" alt=\"Shazam logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/figure>\n<h2>Skype<\/h2>\n<p>The founders of Skype initially called it <strong>\u201cSky Peer-to-Peer\u201d<\/strong> to promote its use of connecting calls over the sky (wirelessly) using peer-to-peer technology. However, the name was <strong>ultimately reduced to just \u201cSkype\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/skype.jpg\" alt=\"Skype logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/figure>\n<h2>Sony<\/h2>\n<p>From the <strong>Latin word \u2018sonus\u2019 meaning sound, and \u2018sonny\u2019<\/strong> a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/sony.jpg\" alt=\"Sony logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/figure>\n<h2>Spotify<\/h2>\n<p>The company\u2019s co-founders share the fact that the name Spotify arrived when one of them <strong>misheard a suggestion as \u201cspotify\u201d while brainstorming<\/strong>. When Google did not show any results for the word, they quickly bought a domain name and set up their company.<\/p>\n<p>Later, they came up with an after-construction that \u201cSpotify\u201d blended from the words \u201cspot\u201d and \u201cidentify\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/spotify.jpg\" alt=\"Spotify logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/figure>\n<h2>Sprint<\/h2>\n<p>Sprint, another telecommunications company based in the US, hails its name from the era of old-school telephones and railroads. The word \u201cSprint\u201d is a known acronym, which got finalized after an internal contest, for <strong>\u201cSouthern Pacific Railroad International Network Telecommunications\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/sprint.jpg\" alt=\"Sprint logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/figure>\n<h2>Twitter<\/h2>\n<p>It was <strong>between status, jitter and twitch<\/strong>, but when the founders saw the definition for twitter as they moved down the dictionary entries, they knew they had found a winner \u2013 \u201ca short burst of inconsequential information, and chirps from birds\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/twitter.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/figure>\n<h2>Uber<\/h2>\n<p>Initially started as UberCab, the company\u2019s name is a reference to the somewhat familiar <strong>word \u201cuber\u201d, which translates to topmost, superior<\/strong>, or above. After the company received complaints from the cab drivers of San Francisco in 2011, Uber removed the word \u201cCab\u201d from its name and got to just \u201cUber\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/uber.jpg\" alt=\"Uber logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/figure>\n<h2>Ubuntu<\/h2>\n<p>Ubuntu is a <strong>Zulu word that means \u201cHumanity to Others\u201d<\/strong>, a pretty noble notion for open source software, and hence the perfect fit.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/ubuntu.jpg\" alt=\"Ubuntu logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/figure>\n<h2>Verizon<\/h2>\n<p>Verizon is one of the largest telecommunication service providers in the US. Its name \u201cVerizon\u201d is a portmanteau of the words <strong>\u201cVeritas\u201d, which means truth in Latin, and \u201chorizon\u201d<\/strong>. The company specifies on its website that its name signifies reliability and certainty along with its forward-looking vision.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/verizon.jpg\" alt=\"Verizon logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/figure>\n<h2>Wikipedia<\/h2>\n<p>Wiki meant \u201cquick\u201d in Hawaiian and the word was actually a mash-up with part of the word encyclopedia.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/wikipedia.jpg\" alt=\"Wikipedia logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\"><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World-famous companies with the origin of their names and the ideas behind their establishment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3398],"tags":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["entry-content","is-maxi"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.8 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Where These Companies Got Their Names From - Part 1 - Hongkiat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"World-famous companies with the origin of their names and the ideas behind their establishment\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Where These Companies Got Their Names From - Part 1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"World-famous companies with the origin of their names and the ideas behind their establishment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Hongkiat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hongkiatcom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-06-01T15:01:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-09-11T11:00:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\/adobe.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Hongkiat Lim\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@hongkiat\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@hongkiat\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Hongkiat Lim\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"7 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.hongkiat.com\\\/blog\\\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.hongkiat.com\\\/blog\\\/where-these-companies-got-their-names-from-part-1\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Hongkiat Lim\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.hongkiat.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/e3613a3bf757e4f67770f0b7a339edd0\"},\"headline\":\"Where These Companies Got Their Names From &#8211; 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