User:Pepperfly

To begin with, I thought that I, Jeff Carter, had coined the name "Pepperfly" in April of 2002 when I was trying to think of a name for my Internet domain. I derived Pepperfly by combining my favoite icon and affinity for peppers, with my wife's favorite icon, the dragonfly.

Before I registered the domain name, I performed a Google search and found that there were four hits, indicating that I was not the first to think of the name. One of the search hits referred to a particular model of adolescent girl's shoes. The other search hits referred to the name of a fantasy or role playing character (I believe that these search results referred to the same character, referred to in separate web pages, not three different characters with the same name). Today (as of 9/30/2010), Google.com returns ~16,800 results for the search term "pepperfly."

So, it seems that I was at least the third person to think of the name, though I feel that I in fact created it out of my own original idea. I would be interested to know how other people - before or since - have derived the name in their own original thinking.