octothorpe

Origin:

Origin: Coined in the 1960s by researchers at Bell Telephone Laboratories

Origin: : octo- (probably in reference to the eight endpoints of the lines in the symbol)

Origin: + -thorpe (perhaps from thorp, in reference to the resemblance of the symbol to a village surrounded by fields, or after James Francis Thorpe, because one of the researchers was an advocate of the restoration of Thorpe's Olympic medals)