Here’s what 24 of the most popular brand names really mean

Google owes its name to a typo.

Google's name emerged from a brainstorming session at Stanford University. Founder Larry Page was coming up with ideas for a massive data-index website with other graduate students, Business Insider reported.

One of the suggestions was "googolplex" one of the largest describable numbers. The name 'Google' came about after one of the students accidentally spelled it wrong. Page then registered his company with this name.

McDonald's is named after two brothers who ran a burger restaurant.

Raymond Kroc, the founder of McDonald's, was a milkshake machine salesman when he first met brothers Dick and Mac McDonald, who ran a burger restaurant in San Bernardino, California.

The McDonald brothers bought several of his Kroc's Multimixers and he was so impressed by their burger restaurant that he became their agent and set up franchises around the US, Money reported. Years later, he bought rights to the McDonald's name.

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