You make some good points, and I agree to caution against names that bear no semantic relationship with their purpose. My justification of Alamofire is that it

You make some good points, and I agree to caution against names that bear no semantic relationship with their purpose. My justification of Alamofire is that it reflects the history of the project, which traces back from AFNetworking to Gowalla (formerly Alamofire, Inc.), the product for which it was originally developed.