Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee was originally called "Soulstorm" before GT Interactive changed the name. I could be mistaken, but I think the company was called Oddworld before this, and Lorne had misgivings giving his company name to just one of their IPs.
If that is accurate information (I struggled to find anything that would verify or falsify my recollection), then the "Odd" in the name precedes the Oddworld games. The planet probably wasn't even called "Oddworld" before then (which if you think about it, is a weird name for one's native planet. It is as if some very self-aware social critics/satirists got to name the world before even "Ground" took off, like in most cultures.
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