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The creator of MySQL, MaxDB and MariaDB named them after his children My, Max and Maria, so why not
I thought you were kidding, but his daughter is actually named "My".
It helps that it's a name in another language (Finnish), where “my” isn't a word, at all.
Then what's about MongoDB?
Hi, it's me, Mongo.