Most CSS color names were inherited from the X11 color list [1], which, in turn, sourced its colors from a weird mixture of Crayola crayons, paint samples, and idiosyncratic personal choices [2]. It's a mess.

[1]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/blob/master/di...

[2]: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2014Mar/0272....

Maybe it wasn’t named so that long after people like me pass from memory for good, people will still speak of Rebecca and of the love we showed her.