The original name of the language was "COOL", which was not feasible from a copyright perspective after the Microsoft team's investigation.

The lead architect of the language wanted to have a reference to the language’s C heritage in the name, and as a little wordplay on C++, as an octothorpe symbol resembles four plusses, and finally settled on C#.
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