Amiga Corporation

Amiga was founded in 1982 as Hi-Toro by a group of investors from the Midwest. Jay Miner recalled how the new name was chosen, "The name they wanted was actually Amica, which someone had found in a Latin dictionary. It means friend or friendliness. But it turned out the name Amica was already licensed, so they simply changed the C in Amica to a G. I don't think they had thought of the Spanish word Amiga; it just turned out that way." Jay initially thought that a Spanish name would not be well received for a computer but eventually warmed up to it. [1]

The company's original offices were located at 3350 Scott Boulevard #7 in Santa Clara, CA until August, 1984 when they were sold to Commodore.

References

Needle, Dave. The History of Amiga - Personal Computing, August 1985 - p. 90