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…or we're just running out of names that are puns of "C" for C++ successor languages, so things that were deprecated a decade ago are now fair game?

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Are you kidding? There's tons of other words that start with C. And why would it need to anyway?

This trend of not putting any thought into what you name your language/framework/application is fairly new and shows serious laziness. Google's team should have done better. Naming things is hard but if you're going to make something worth people's time, it's worth spending a little more effort than they did.

The pun is that C is the chemical symbol for carbon.

But it's a C++ replacement, not a C replacement, so they should have named it Nitrogen.

Edit: it appears that Nitrogen and Phosphorus are already used by Lisp dialects.

Or a 'D' element, I believe Dubnium is still available.

C++ is still carbon, just missing a couple of electrons.

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