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It was named after "Mongo, an immensely strong, dim-witted, yet philosophical henchman" in the movie "Blazing Saddles" (which is hilarious but would probably get Mel Brooks burned at the stake if he tried to make it today.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blazing_Saddles

Anyway, "mongo" is short for "mongoloid" which was a derogatory word for folks with what we now call Down Syndrome, and also racist in re: Mongols. So yeah, not a great choice of name.

I've heard of "mong" as short for "mongoloid" but I've never heard of "monogo" being used that way. Searching through Google books most of the results for mongo refer to the Mongo people of the Congo. The second most common source is the fictional planet Mongo from the Flash Gordon comics.

Maybe Google is being Politically Correct?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Mongo

German

In Quebecois French as well, "mongol" can be a pejorative for someone with DS.

(That's because "Mongolian idiocy" is the obsolete medical term for DS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_idiocy)

Spanish, for instance.