Why is Blender called "Blender"?

[reed]

Why is Blender called “Blender”? Anyone know the story?

[Metsys]

https://blenderartists.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4497&highlight=blender+name+history

@ton

The name ‘Blender’ comes from a demo reel we did at animation studio NeoGeo in 1992, where the software was originally developed.
The demo reel used a song from Yello, called Blender as well (“The Blender for the next millennium!”).

Our in-house software then was called ‘Traces’, quite unoriginal. When I did a complete overhaul of our internal software, I wanted a better name for the project. Someone suggested Blender, and that’s about it.

[PG1]

Here man very simple
http://download.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/ch01s02.html