IIRC "ERicsson LANGuage" because it was created for networking stuff at Ericsson. EDIT: Yep, we're actually both right! From the Wikipedia page: > The name "E

IIRC "ERicsson LANGuage" because it was created for networking stuff at Ericsson. EDIT: Yep, we're actually both right! From the Wikipedia page: > The name "Erlang", attributed to Bjarne Däcker, has been presumed by those working on the telephony switches (for whom the language was designed) to be a reference to Danish mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang as well as a syllabic abbreviation of "Ericsson Language".