List of Company Name Etymologies - U

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• Ubuntu Foundation – named from a Zulu word (ùɓúntú) that translates as "humanity to others".
• Umbro – Umbro was founded in 1924 by the Humphrey (Umphrey) Brothers, Harold C. and Wallace.
• Unilever – name created to reflect the merger of Margarine Unie and Lever Brothers, agreed in 1929. Lever Brothers was named after its founders, William Hesketh Lever and his brother, James.
• UNIMED – Brazilian cooperative of physicians, meaning União de Medicos (Physicians' Union)
• Unisys – from United Information Systems, the new name for the company that resulted from the merging of two old mainframe computer companies, Burroughs and Sperry . It united two incompatible ranges. The newborn Unisys was briefly the world's second-largest computer company, after IBM.
• Unocal Corporation – the Union Oil Company of California, founded in 1890
• UPS – United Parcel Service of America, Inc.
• UUNET – one of the industry's oldest and largest Internet Service Providers, named from UNIX-to-UNIX Network.