I made these for you!

Etymologies

Acer 
born as Multitech International in 1976, the company changed its name to Acer in 1987; the Latin word for "sharp, acute, able and facile"

Adobe Systems
from the Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of co-founder John Warnock

Asana
Named for a Sanskrit word that refers to the place and posture in which a yogi sits.

BlackBerry
Named to evoke joy, countering the stress typically associated with work email. The keyboard’s little buttons vaguely resembled the skin of a fruit. On a Mind Map, someone wrote “strawberry.” but “strawberry is too slow.” They felt that this technology needed to be instantaneous. BlackBerry was born.

Bumble
A board member simply suggested the name. References the conversations on the platform and female-centric nature of bee hives.

Canon
When the company began manufacturing cameras on a trial basis, it named them “Kwanon”, the Buddhist Goddess of Mercy. The name “embodied the Company’s vision of creating the best cameras in the world.”

Dropbox
Named simply for its function to enable users to drop documents into a virtual box and then access them whenever and wherever.

Etsy
The company attempted to create a logical system for naming the company based on brevity, domain availability, SEO, and Mechanical Turk rankings. It failed but the script’s name (Etsy) ended up serving a different purpose.

Google Chrome
Originally an internal codename (because a project lead “liked fast cars”) the team stuck with it because of a mix of sentimentality, the word’s association with speed and the minimal amount of UI “chrome” the product possessed.

IKEA
The name is an acronym standing for Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd — comprised of the founder’s name (Ingvar Kamprad), his childhood farm (Elmtaryd), and hometown (Agunnaryd).

Instagram
Originally named Burbn, the final name is a portmanteau of Instant Camera + Telegram = Instagram.

LEGO
Made from a contraction of “leg godt,” a Danish phrase meaning “play well.”

MailChimp
the email marketing company was originally going to be called Chimpmail but the domain was taken, so co-founder Ben Chestnut switched it around. He told Inc magazine that his parents had had "a pet monkey in Thailand. And they always warned me never to have a pet monkey. So I had this mischievous monkey in my brain."

Mircrosoft
A portmanteau named for their product: microprocessor software.

Nest
Named to evoke simple, delightful things for a thoughtful home.

Pokémon
Pocket monsters or “Poketto Monsuta” in Japanese.

Quora
A Latin-sounding association to “quorum” — a sufficient number of people to make a decision.

Siri
Each team member reportedly has their own favorite origin story but the two leading cases are the Norse meaning “beautiful woman who leads you to victory” and a translation of “secret” in swahili.

Skype
The name was derived from the descriptive expression “sky peer-to-peer.”

Slack
A tweet from the company’s founder revealed the name came from a project acronym for Searchable Log of All Conversation & Knowledge. More recently the company shared a more poetic backstory.

Spotify
An early conversation between employees led to a misheard word “Spotify” that was later described (retroactively) as a portmanteau of spot and identify.

Starbucks
A search for names that start with the strong “st-” eventually led to Starbucks, name name of Captain Ahab’s first mate in Moby-Dick.

Stripe
Despite the name’s commonality it lacked any direct corporate association — and after weeks of debate it stuck.

TED
The merging of Technology, Entertainment and Design.

Tinder
Named along the theme of “igniting a spark” the team arrived on Tinder, material that “burns easily and can be used to start a fire.”

Weebly
After struggling with finding available domain names the founders wrote a script to generate short, pronounceable names eventually resulting in Weebly.

WordPress
The blogging and website platform used an historical reference to the printing press to name the new site.

Yahoo!
word Yahoo was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book Gulliver's Travels. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and barely human. Yahoo! founders David Filo and Jerry Yang jokingly considered themselves yahoos. It's also an interjection sometimes associated with United States Southerners' and Westerners' expression of joy, as alluded to in Yahoo.com commercials that end with someone singing the word "yahoo".

Yelp
The founders were reportedly lukewarm on the name but the domain was available and it also was a convenient contraction of “yellow pages.”

Zillow
Zillow name evolved from the desire to make zillions of data points for homes accessible to everyone. But, as a home so much more, it’s where you lay your head to rest at night, like a pillow – Zillow was born.