The marketing names for macOS and OSX have always been random other than having a general theme to it.
The OS in most cases just refers to itself by the number and is what it will show in a lot of scenarios in addition to the marketing name.
The OS in most cases just refers to itself by the number and is what it will show in a lot of scenarios in addition to the marketing name.
Not entirely true: two of the cats were name variations of their predecessors to express an intent of limited end-user / feature updates and a focus on refinement (even though taxonomically the cats have basically no relationships outside of being cats, mountain lions aren’t even in the same genus as lions)
It’s only in the last few releases that the dart board has come out
So will macOS 14 be further south (Carlsbad?) or back north (Eureka?) -- stay tuned...