Company Full Forms
Sr. No. Short Name Full Form
1 ABC American Broadcasting Company
2 ACER “sharp, acute, able and facile” in Latin
3 ADIDAS From the name of the founder Adolf (Adi) Dassler.
4 ADOBE From the Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of co-founder John Warnock.
5 AKAI rom the named for its founder, Saburo Akai.
6 Amazon Bezos Wanted A Name For His Company That Began With “A” And He Took The Name Amazon
7 AMD Advance micro devices.
8 AOL American Online.
9 APC American Power Conversion
10 APPLE Asian Passenger Payload Experiment.
11 ASUS Named after Pegasus, the winged horse of Greek mythology.
12 AT& T American Telephone and Telegraph Company
13 ATI Array Technologies Incorporated
14 AUDI From The Surname of The Founder August Horch (Audi, in Latin)
15 BCCI The Bahrain Chamber of Commerce & Industry
16 BenQ Bringing Enjoyment N Quality
17 BHW Bell & Howell Company
18 BMW Bayerische Motoren Werke
19 BPL British Process Laboratory
20 CASIO From the name of its founder, Kashio Tadao
21 CISCO Computer Information System Company.
22 COCA-COLA Derived from the coca leaves and kola nuts used as flavoring
23 COMOAQ Compatibility and Quality
24 COREL Cowpland Research Laboratory
25 DELL Michael DELL.
26 DIGG From “ Diggnation ”
27 DMART Came from the owner name Ramakrishna DAMANI
28 EA Electronic Arts
29 eBay Orgin from “ Echo Bay
30 EPSON Named from “Son of Electronic Printer”
31 ERICSSON Named after its founder Lars Magnus Ericsson
32 FERRARI From the name of its founder, Enzo Ferrari.
33 FIAT Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino
34 GE General Electronics.
35 GOOGLE Global Organisation Of Oriented Group Language of Earth.
36 HCL Hindustan Computer Limited.
37 HITACHI Old place name, literally “ sunrise”
38 HMT Hindustan Machine Tools
39 HONDA From the name of its founder, Soichiro Honda.
40 HP Hewlett-Packard
41 HSBC Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
42 HTC High Tech Computer
43 IBM International Business Machines Corporation.
44 IMDB Internet Movie Data Base
45 INFOSYS Information System.
46 INTEL Integrated Electronics.
47 KFC Kentucky Fried Chicken
48 KODAK From the letter K, the favourte letter of Gorge Eastman (Founder)
49 L & T Larsen & Toubro Limited
50 LENOVO LE(Legend), NOVO(New).
51 LG Lucky Goldstar
52 McDonalds From the name of the brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald, who founded the first McDonald’s
53 Motorola From Motor and Victrola – as originally they made car radios
54 MRF Madras Rubber Factory
55 MS Microsoft
56 Napster Named after Fanning’s hairstyle-based nickname
57 NDTV New Delhi Television
58 Nero Nero Burning ROM named after Nero burning Rome
59 Nike Named for the Greek goddess of victory
60 Nikon The original name was Nippon Kogaku, meaning “Japanese Optical”
61 Nissan The company was earlier known by the name Nippon Sangyo which means “Japan Industries”
62 Nokia From the finnish city of Nokia
63 OAB Oman Arab Bank
64 Oracle The name Oracle comes from the code name of a CIA project
65 Philips From The Name Of The Founders Gerard Philips And Anton Philips
66 QGC Questar Gas Company
67 Red-Hat Founder Marc Ewing Use To Wear A Red Cap
68 Reebok Name Comes From The Afrikaans Spelling Of Rhebok, A Type Of African Antelope
69 RIM Research In Motion
70 Samsonite Named From The Biblical Character Samson, Renowned For His Strength
71 Samsung Meaning Three Stars In Korean
72 SONY Sound Of New York.
73 Suzuki From The Name Of Its Founder, Michio Suzuki
74 TATA Named After Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata
75 TCS Tata Consultancy Services.
76 Toshiba Named From The Merger Of Consumer Goods Company Tokyo Denki (Tokyo Electric Co)And Electrical Firm Shibaura Seisaku-Sho
77 Toyota From The Name Of The Founder, Sakichi Toyoda.
78 TVS From The Name Of The Founder T. V. Sundaram Iyengar
79 UPS United Parcel Service
80 VISA From The Latin Word “Charta Visa” (Verified Paper, Lit. “Paper That Has Been Seen”)
81 Vodafone From Voice, Data, Telefone
82 Volkswagen From The German For People’s Car
83 Volvo From The Latin Word Volvo, Which Means “ I Roll ”
84 Wal-Mart Named After Founder Sam Walton
85 WD Western Digital
86 WIPRO Western India Product Limited.
87 Yamaha Named After The Founder Torakusu Yamaha
88 ZMS Zhone Management System
89 YAHOO Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle