How did the strange name come from?

There is no doubt that a good name is essential for creating a company and a brand, and recently there are foreign websites, and some well-known companies have introduced their names, let's look at these names, how it came about.

1.Twitter

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, founder Jack Dorsey said once in order to choose a suitable name spent a lot of thought, came up with countless names, hoping to express a kind of people are talking about the feeling, would like to use the word "twitch", But it does not allow the right image to emerge from the human brain. Finally have to look for synonyms in the dictionary, "Twitter" is a kind of bird calls, the founder that the birds are short, frequent, fast, in line with the content of the site, so chose "Twitter" for the site name.

2.Zynga

Do you think that "Zynga" sounds more like a pet's name than a company's name, and the truth is that its founder, Mark Pincus, named his company after his American Tiger Dog "Zinga".

3.Google

The term "googol" refers to the 100 power of 10, written in the form of a number 1 followed by 100 zeros, which can be used to represent the vast amount of resources available on the Internet. But Sean Anderson, who came up with the name, made the word "Google. com" When searching the Internet domain registration database, which was just right to use.

4.Yahoo

The word "Yahoo" originated in "Gulliver's Travels". David Filo and Jerry Yang insisted on choosing the name because they liked the dictionary definition of Yahoo as "rude, unsophisticated, vulgar" and felt like they were.

5.Skype

"Skype" originally full name is "Sky Peer-to-peer (Peer-to-peer network in the Skies)", abbreviated as "Skyper", later, due to domain name restrictions, "R" was discarded.

6.Apple

Steve Jobs, one of the founders, said that when he was driving from Palo Alto to Los Altos, he said he thought of a great name-"Apple Consolidator", but he had no wise reason, Just immediately thought they were going to face a lot of copyright problems.

7.Pandora

"Pandora" is named after a Greek goddess. As the music company says, this means "all gifts" of the Greek goddess, in ancient Greek mythology, where Pandora received many gifts from the gods, including the musical gifts from Apollo, and she will reward her gifts to those who are endlessly searching for music.

8.GoDaddy

GoDaddy is Bob Parsons in 1997 by the name "Jomax Technologies", two years later, the company in order to seek a more memorable name and convened an employee brainstorming meeting, during which some people suggested that named "Big Daddy", But the domain name has been registered. The idea later turned into godaddy,parsons like the new name because its name can bring joy to people.

9.Hulu

Hulu's chief executive, Jason Kilar, has described the origins of the name. In a series of marathon naming meetings, "Hulu" one was proposed, in Mandarin, "Hulu" has two interesting meanings, it is literally translated as "gourd", in ancient times, gourd was hollowed out for the preservation of precious things, the second meaning is "interactive recording ( Interactive records) ", and these are highly relevant to the company's mission. In addition, the name itself is short and easy to pronounce because it embodies innovation without any meaning in English.

10.Etsy

Etsy is an American online sales of handmade crafts website, on June 18, 2005, the site gathered a large number of influential and charismatic handmade art designer. Robert Kalin said it was a foreign film that inspired him, in Italian, that it meant "oh,yes!", which in Latin was "and if".

11.Meebo

Meebo is an AJAX-enabled Web IM system that allows you to log in to aim, ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger, Jabber, GTalk, MSN im software, and chat online via the web. The founder wants a simple two-syllable name that doesn't have any meaning, and can be spelled exactly as soon as it's pronounced. After repeated tests, the term "Meebo" was adopted.

12.Yandex

Yandex is Russia's largest internet company. Its meaning represents an indexer. Yandex's Russian writing is яндекс, and the Russian word "я" (Ya) sounds like a personal pronoun "I" in English.

13.Bebo

Bebo is a social networking site founded in 2005 in Britain. Blog Early, blog Often (write blog early, often write blog).

14.Zillow

Zillow was founded in 2006, mainly to provide users with various types of real estate information inquiry services. The name is the combination of "zillions (countless)" and "Pillows (pillow)".

15.Yipit

Group Buy aggregation website Yipit founder has described its difficult name process. They want a short name and end with "it," hoping to make the name more popular. A simple Python script was then written to generate "[consonant] [vowel] [consonant] it.com", which resulted in 2,205 results, 400 of which were filtered and eventually set to Yipit.