What is JIRA short for?

[noamdah · Accepted solution]

Nothing really, it came from Gojira which is the Japanese name for Godzilla. Later the Go got dropped hence JIRA.
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[Bart Meerveld]

It's not an abbreviation, it's part of Gojira, the Japanese word for godzilla. The main competitor at the time was bugzilla.

[Jonas Andersson]

I think the question should be "What is google for?"