# Business name? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 12, 2008, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-name/437231 "2008-02-12T00:51:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-name/437231/1 "2008-02-12T00:51:57Z")
My friend want to design and sell maternity tops. She is name shopping. She likes a name that has a hard “K” sound, and maybe an short “a”, and an “o”, short or long. She likes short sounds like “cola” and “kona”. None of these suggestions are required. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-name/437231/2 "2008-02-12T01:00:25Z")
Areola? ---
**Author:** ![Wrylie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wrylie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wrylie)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-name/437231/3 "2008-02-12T01:23:44Z")
Komfort ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-name/437231/4 "2008-02-12T01:29:33Z")
What about kodomo? It means “child” in Japanese. ---
**Author:** ![ArmenE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ArmenE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArmenE)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-name/437231/5 "2008-02-12T01:33:23Z")
[QUOTE=BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed] What about kodomo? It means “child” in Japanese. [/QUOTE] Sounds too much like Komodo, I think ---
**Author:** ![Wallflower](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Wallflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallflower)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-name/437231/6 "2008-02-12T01:41:55Z")
Well, for maternity wear, I’m thinking maybe a womans name. How about Cora? ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-name/437231/7 "2008-02-12T01:51:11Z")
Crack-O-Dawn and that’s not the Tony Orlando joke. ---
**Author:** ![Mongo\_Ponton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Mongo\_Ponton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mongo_Ponton)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-name/437231/8 "2008-02-12T02:04:57Z")
Pumpkin ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-name/437231/9 "2008-02-12T02:39:46Z")
Koala? In addition to the sounds that your friend likes, it also has the marsupial “something in the pouch” joke to it. She could also use Koala Ts for tshirts which also plays off “quality”. ---
**Author:** ![Tenar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-name/437231/10 "2008-02-12T04:25:33Z")
[QUOTE=BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed] What about kodomo? It means “child” in Japanese. [/QUOTE] Also Japanese (and I’m sure someone will correct me if I have this wrong): Oyako, meaing “mother and child” or “chicken and egg” or “kobun,” meaning “child” or “follower” (which I like the sound of, but which has unfortunate Yakuza connotations) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-name/437231/11 "2008-02-12T05:34:08Z")
Oak, Oka, Ako, Aiko, Aiko aiko. ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-name/437231/12 "2008-02-12T05:40:51Z")
[QUOTE=PastAllReason] Koala? In addition to the sounds that your friend likes, it also has the marsupial “something in the pouch” joke to it. She could also use Koala Ts for tshirts which also plays off “quality”. [/QUOTE] I seem to recall drinking something called Koala Tea as a kid. It was good. Now whenever I want to say something lacks quality, I always think of the Dilbert where the company has printed mugs (perhaps?) to represent the quality of the company. On the mugs however, they forgot to print the q, so the company stands for “uality.” So in my mind, anything that lacks quality is uality. Man, must be a sign of my age when I start rambling about things unrelated to the thread and the “when I was a kid” stories. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-name/437231/13 "2008-02-12T05:51:39Z")
How about an ‘ona’ sound with no ‘K’? [Nona](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nona_%28mythology%29) was the Roman goddess of pregnancy. She was also one of the Fates in some versions, the one who spun the wool from which the threads of life were measured (a natural fit- pregnancy/raw material to wool/life). The name of course is related to _nine_ as in months). She’s one of the [three babes](http://www.timelessmyths.com/classical/gallery/lararium.jpg) on this lararium (household shrine), though I’m not sure which. (I know the snake represents fertility. ETA: Ooh ooh ooh… Her Greek counterpart, also the patroness of pregnancy, is [Clotho](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clotho), which is also spelled Klotho, which has the added “clothing” pun. [Pics](http://images.google.com/images?q=clotho&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-38,GGGL:en&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi) (I tried finding a better image, but trust me: entering Nona and hitting search in Google images is NOT work safe. :rolleyes:) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-name/437231/14 "2008-02-12T05:54:09Z")
In Swahili, _malaika_ can mean baby, small child, angel or a flock of birds. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-name/437231/15 "2008-02-12T06:24:39Z")
Mama Pocket Keepsack Treasure Packet ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-name/437231/16 "2008-02-12T06:59:00Z")
Coli (which has a hard k sound if not the letter) means “worshipful” or “to cultivate”, both appropriate for a pregnancy. The online business could be Ecoli. [QUOTE=Czarcasm] In Swahili, _malaika_ can mean baby, small child, angel or a flock of birds. [/QUOTE] In a weird connection, a friend of mine who had twins a couple of years ago had a recurring nightmare while pregnant in which she gave birth to a flock of birds. ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-name/437231/17 "2008-02-12T08:03:27Z")
**Koolkit !!!** ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-name/437231/18 "2008-02-12T09:21:38Z")
[QUOTE=ArmenE] Sounds too much like Komodo, I think [/QUOTE] There’s also “ii ko” (pronounced like ee - ko), which means “good kid” Also “akachan”, which means baby. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-name/437231/19 "2008-02-12T10:13:12Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] Coli (which has a hard k sound if not the letter) means “worshipful” or “to cultivate”, both appropriate for a pregnancy. The online business could be Ecoli. [/QUOTE] 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-name/437231/20 "2008-02-12T10:18:57Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] Coli (which has a hard k sound if not the letter) means “worshipful” or “to cultivate”, both appropriate for a pregnancy. The online business could be Ecoli. [/QUOTE] You weren’t on [this](http://youtube.com/watch?v=wqnD6umhOGw) committee, by any chance? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-name/437231.md?page=2)