What’s with the name Blue Acorn anyways?
If you’ve ever started a business, I’m sure you’ve gone through the painstaking process of choosing a name for that business. Many entrepreneurs use their last name and simply attach _industries, or _enterprises at the end. While others choose a more “creative” approach (especially in IT) where they take two words, splice them, and combine them together, make up a word altogether, or used an altered spelling of a common word. We had a few goals in mind when coming up with the name of our company
- Relate it to the founder’s family name (Eichelberger)
- Have some kind of symbolic meaning
- Keep it short and sweet
- Use real words
- Find something not otherwise used by other businesses
- Find something where a decent domain name is available - which is probably the hardest part!
Going through this creative route, a few commonalities appeared both from a family name and symbolic background. As you might realize, the name Eichelberger isn’t all too common, in fact, you probably can’t even pronounce it on your first try. Well, this family name stems back from a German heritage where the Eichelberger family had a coat of arms (like many other European families) and these coat of arms often had symbols representing the family name. The Eichelberger coat of arms contains a mountain, oak trees, and the color azure (blue). Also falling in line with the Eichel meaning “acorn” and berger meaning “mountain” - giving you some indication of the type of people that they were. Well, it also happens that blue is often associated with technology (in today’s times), and oak, or acorns are actually symbols for strength (acorns being the seed of the oak tree thus the foundation of strength). So, the terms blue, acorn, mountain, and oak were commonalities.
It was first decided that the word mountain was just too long - so that was eliminated, leaving us with blue, acorn, and oak. So going with the only potential combinations, it was down to Blue Acorn vs. Blue Oak. In our research we found numerous companies incorporated as Blue Oak as well as a general lack of appropriate domain names. However, there were no other companies incorporated as Blue Acorn, and just our luck the domain was expiring that week. So, we went ahead with the incorporation paperwork, and back ordered the domain which SnapNames.com secured for us only days later. So now, you know a little bit more about our company than you probably cared for, but thanks for taking an interest in our history!
