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This is a list of company names with their name origins explained. Some origins are disputed.

''for similar etymological lists, see [[List of country name etymologies]], [[etymology]]

*[[Adobe Systems|Adobe]] - came from name of the river [[Adobe]] Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.

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*[[Honda]] - from the name of its founder, [[Soichiro Honda]]
*[[Hotmail]] - Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in '[[mail]]' and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters "[[html]]" - the 
programmingmarkup language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective upper casing.

*[[Hewlett-Packard|HP]] - [[Bill Hewlett]] and [[Dave Packard]] tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.
*[[Hitachi]] - stands for "sunrise" in Japanese.
*[[Hyundai]] - means "present time" in Korean.
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*[[Santa Cruz Operation|SCO]] - from Santa Cruz Operation. The company's office was in [[Santa Cruz, California]].
*[[Siemens AG|Siemens]] - founded in 1847 by Werner von Siemens.
*[[Sony]] - from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.


*[[Subaru]] - from the Japanese name for the star cluster known to Westerners as [[Pleiades]] or the Seven Sisters. This star cluster features on the company's logo.
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*[[Sun Microsystems|SUN]] - founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for [[Stanford University]] [[Network]].
*[[Suzuki]] - from the name of its founder, [[Michio Suzuki]]
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*[[3M]] - ''[[Minnesota]] [[Mining]] and [[Manufacturing]] Company'' started off by mining the material [[corundum]] used to make [[sandpaper]].