[dangets]

Snippet from "Kafka: The Definitive Guide"

  People often ask how Kafka got its name and if it signifies anything specific about the application itself. Jay Kreps offered the following insight:
    I thought that since Kafka was a system optimized for writing, using a writer’s name would make sense. I had taken a lot of lit classes in college and liked Franz Kafka. Plus the name sounded cool for an open source project.
    So basically there is not much of a relationship.

[FeelTheBerns]

Nice. A real answer. Always surprising whats gets dug up on hackernews.