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I believe it started with Golang, where Go was already an existing language by a hobbyist - granted nobody was using it kinda lame to steal his name.

While I agree with the other two, I remember when Golang came out and no one except the author of the other Go language had ever heard of it.

Go was taken by ancient China before that.

maybe the game itself but the name is derived from Japanese, fairly recently