Nope, Just a Coincidence

This ape's name comes from Malay meaning "person of the forest," and has no relation to the color of its fur

Well it displays all types of emotions, so that's clearly why it's named that right? Wrong, it's just a portmanteau of the Japanese words for 'picture' and 'character'

These two countries with similar names are actually both named for cardinal directions, but one derives from the word for East, and the other from the word for South.

You might think that this word is related to the word "woman," but it actually comes from an Old English word meaning belly.

You might think that the second Vice President of the United States and the 42nd American president are part of a political dynasty because they share this last name but there's no relation.

This South American capital and this southern California city sound like they're named after the same person, but one is named after Jesus's disciple James the great, and the other after Spanish missionary, Saint Didacus

Despite sharing the same name, this comic book character actually predates the founding of the civil rights organization of the same name by just a few months

This world capital actually comes from the name of a Celtic tribe who lived in the area, and not the mythological Greek hero

George Lucas claims that the name of this Star Wars character has no relation to the director of the films, Swiss Family Robinson, and Battle of the Bulge, which inspired the original trilogy

These two island countries also have very similar names, but one is named after the patron saint of astronomy, and the other for the day of the week it was discovered by Columbus.

A meme from the early 2010s claimed that Easter was based on a festival celebrating this Mesopotamian fertility goddess with her name pronounced like Easter. In reality, this is just a coincidence, and the name Easter probably comes a Germanic Spring goddess.

Visual inspection of the porcupine, hedgehog, and echidna might make you think they're related animals, but actually they all developed similar spiky defenses independently of each other, an example of this scientific term