Someone recently observed that SQLite would be used a lot more in production if it didn't have the word "lite" in its name. I've personally been amazed by what it can do. Really great piece of tech with an unfortunate name.
The creator says it like Escue Ell-ite emphasis on the Es- and -ite. [0]
On a related topic, anyone have an idea of the breakdown of people that say Sequel vs S.Q.L. and are there people that look down on others for their usage? Of course ignoring the opinion of anyone that says Jif.
Case in point:
Blue Origin wants people to refer to it by the nickname "Blue". But you kind of have to be in the industry to know that. Everyone else just uses the initialism instead, which is most commonly used to abbreviate "body odor".
The macbook I'm typing this on has 113 sqlite databases open right now. I'd call that a lot of deployment. The name doesn't seem to have held sqlite back much!
IMO database names are incredibly bland, outside of Cockroachdb, and not a driving factor to adoption given the critical nature of the decision.