[noonespecial]

Monkeycalandar? Candygram? The names are ridiculous. It's like the whole place is staffed by 12 year olds who loved the "Spy Kids" movies.

[Luc]

Computer generated, of course. Though I have no doubt a person has the final say, screwing with the otherwise perfect randomness.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Beams#X-Ger.C3.A...

"Jones had already concluded the Germans used code names which were too descriptive. He asked a specialist in the German language and literature at Bletchley Park about the word Wotan. The specialist realised Wotan referred to Wōden and might therefore be a single beam navigation system."

[slashdotaccount]

NSA Codenames: http://cryptome.org/2014/01/nsa-codenames.htm

[lectrick]

They're probably generated from random numbers so that they reveal no information about what they are naming.

Look up "PGP word list", for example.