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This may seem like an odd question, but does anyone know the origin of the jQuery name? How did it come to be called "jQuery"?

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From John Resig himself:

I was, originally, going to use JSelect, but all the domain names were taken already.

That was in reply to a comment from Kris De Volder, the creator of the Eclipse plugin, "JQuery" (with a capital "J"):

Did you do a websearch before decding name you script language "JQuery"? There are in fact already two other thing that are called JQuery out there.

Source: http://ejohn.org/blog/barcampnyc-wrap-up/ (see the comments)

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As I understand it, it is because it gives you a way to 'query' the DOM using the selectors. The 'j' is for Javascript