After searching through a large list of suggested names, the Allizom Council, which is managing the project, finally decided upon that name early in the morning of April 1, 2005. Asked about the reasons for that choice of name, Neil Rashbrook, an Allizom Council member and long-time Mozilla developer, replied "We ultimately chose to adopt the name 'Allizom' after determining all other proposed names to be unusable. Also, we liked the sound of it, and it is definitely not currently in use for any other project. We wanted to create something new, but still stay with something of the old. Not only that, it's the same length as the previous name and it also makes us show up first in alphabetical lists of available web browsers and mail/news clients."
