In fact, the name “Jira” is a reference to Bugzilla. Atlassian says: https://confluence.atlassian.com/plugins/servlet/mobile?contentId=223219957#content/view/2

In fact, the name “Jira” is a reference to Bugzilla. Atlassian says: https://confluence.atlassian.com/plugins/servlet/mobile?contentId=223219957#content/view/223219957 https://confluence.atlassian.com/plugins/servlet/mobile?cont... > We originally used Bugzilla for bug tracking and the developers in the office started calling it by the Japanese name for Godzilla, Gojira (the original black-and-white Japanese Godzilla films are also office favourites). As we developed our own bug tracker, and then it became an issue tracker, the name stuck, but the Go got dropped - hence JIRA.