There's actually some sense under the chosen name. First of all, it is a platform name (Android) and a language name (Kotlin), joined together and abbreviated.

There's actually some sense under the chosen name. First of all, it is a platform name (Android) and a language name (Kotlin), joined together and abbreviated. The word "anko" is short and there's no other library with the same name (at least, I didn't heard of one). Also, it was created to make Android development sweeter with some synthetic sugar^Wanko. Finally, I just love daifuku.