IIRC, the syntax for JS was redesigned hurriedly to look like Java because at the time Java was hyped as the one true language for everything web, including front-end apps (applets). Definitely the name was chosen for that reason.
I didn't redesign JS syntax at all, it was always C family syntax with Java keywords reserved and a few non-C keywords even used. I never had an s-expr language at first and redid the syntax. Anyone who says so is misinformed.
If you add static types to js and create typescript you all of a sudden have something that looks a lot like c# and java ... don’t you think?
And if you add Lambdas to Java you all of a sudden have something that looks a lot like JavaScript... Don't you think?
To me the big different between js and java is the static type system - ignore that the connection between the two is obvious.