"Sony" has an interesting history as well. The official line is that it was a mixture of "sonus" and "sonny" boys (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony). But I have it on good authority from people in the know in the company that the real reason for the name Sony was that it sounded like an American company name to Japanese ears. America was cool. That is, namewise Sony was the Japanese equivalent of Haagen-Dazs. It's even written in Katakana, the script for foreign words.