Choosing the name for a new language

How do you guys go about choosing a name for a new programming
language? Some considerations that spring to mind are

1. A variant on an existing name if the language is derived from
another
- e.g. C from B
- e.g. BCPL from CPL

2. Form an acronym from some essential intention of the language
designers
- e.g. Fortran from formula translation
- e.g. Algol from algorithmic language
- e.g. Basic from beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code
- e.g. ML from metalanguage

3. Choose a name based on a favourite figure or event
- e.g. Pascal
- e.g. Occam
- e.g. Haskell
- e.g. Python

4. Choose a name that is NOT already a common word
- so that web searches don't return lots of unrelated results

5. Choose a name out of the air
- e.g. Java

Any others ways to choose?

All-in-all I would prefer to go for a combination of 2 and 4 but my
language has many distinguishing characteristics not just one or two.
To pick one would overemphasise that one and misrepresent the
language.

How did you choose your language name?

James
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