Its still better then "Go" ... Go is also a game name and a irregular verb in English. Rust is the same issue. Popular game name and English Verb.
Now both Nim, Rust & Go are frankly not very searchable. Then there is also the issue of nim/nimrod/ and several other splintered communities on twitter/reddit etc..
A programming language needs to use a more unique naming, especially in the age of Google searching etc. Go gets away with there silly naming because they got Google behind them and people think Go = [Go]ogle. For a language that needs to fight against a lot of other languages, a more unique naming is always a plus.
I always wonder why its so difficult for developers to understand that the a more unique naming = easier googling searching & name recognition.
Of course Nimrod was a unique name well searchable, but we know the reasons for the renaming to plain Nim.
But I really wonder why some of the new interesting languages got again such silly names like Crystal, Pony, Red, Chapel. Crystal name has the additional problem that name "Crystal Meth" is used in German language for a very dangerous illegal drug.
Nimrod is hardly a unique name. Only like 7 Million hits. That is the problem when one uses a old biblical ( or slang if we talk about the other definition ) name.
If it was named example: nimcore, nimcrest, ... unique. Took about 30 seconds to create a more unique version of the name with few search hits.
Crystal is indeed a bad example of naming. Too much overlaps ( its not only in German that Crystal has this meaning ). Most of the time the answer as to why x name is used is: "Because it sounded cool". lol But yea, from a business / name recognition point of view, its a slippery slope.
Every freaking new language one end up with "xxx lang" in Google searching because nobody bother going unique. Found so many blogs about nim just buried below search results because of the naming. Most blogs show up because searching for rust/nim/go/... in a combination like that. Because the author mentioned the other languages and this creates a more unique pattern for Google to find.
Best names afaik are Lisp (List processing) and Erlang (Ericsson Language). Perl also is pretty good (but was just renamed from pearl)
C, Ruby, Python, Java... Haskell, Pascal and Ada. All common words or names.
Universal Meta Programming Language = UMPL :)
I agree, many names aren't really nicely searchable. With go you could search for golang.
For other languages it helps to search for 'x lang' where x is the language. Works quite ok for many.