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While a bad brand name isn't enough to make a brand go down, there are top brands that have dropped confusing names before becoming global hits.

According to NBC Finance, Best Buy was called Sound of Music in 1981. At the time, its brand's Roseville, Minn., retail store was razed by a tornado.

Later, the store held a "post-tornado sale" in its parking lot, advertising "best deals" for damaged electronics. Two years later, all the stores were renamed Best Buy.

Google, the most popular search engine provider, was founded in 1986 under the rather obscure name BackRub and renamed Google two years later.

Hertz Car Rental Company was originally known as Hertz Self-Driving Systems Company, but after a major reorganization in 1954, it was renamed Hertz Car Rental Company.

Many of the top brands have changed their names from tedious to simple and friendly.

Compute List Records was renamed IBM, and Jerry's Web Guide was renamed Yahoo, an acronym for "Another Unofficial Hierarchical Database."

In 1991, Quantum Computer Service changed its name to AOL and shortened it to AOL in 2006.

Starbucks Coffee, Tea and Spice was originally called Daily Coffee Company, later abbreviated to simple Starbucks; Nintendo was originally called Malafku Company before adopting its current name, and later renamed Nintendo Poker Company.

Apple, one of the most profitable companies in history, has only slightly changed its name as it moves into other consumer electronics-changing "Apple Computer" to "Apple."

Once known as Mobile Research, the maker of BlackBerry phones, the company changed its name to BlackBerry in 2013, the name of one of the company's most famous flagship products, mainly because they wanted to compete with competitors in the face of declining sales.

There are also companies named after their founders that eventually grow out of their original, homonymic names.

Pitt's Supersub was now Subway, Ward was Circuit City, Brad's Beverage was Pepsi, and Tokyo Communications Industries was Sony.

Blue Ribbon Sporting Goods Company, which originally sold Japanese Onitsuka Tiger sneakers in the United States, eventually became Nike Company today. Nike is the name of the ancient Greek goddess of victory with wings.