Just wanted to get your thoughts on this matter. Can the name of a project provide significant benefit or detriment to a project if it is appropriate/unappropriate or unattractive/attractive -sounding?
I am not sure how much of an impact it has.
Well, short and nice sounding names are mostly adopted by companies for their attractiveness & easy remembering by customers. So if your project name is too hard, "shameful", or "boring" for your users to call/remember, they will find it embarrassing to share. But if you projects is irresistible or too useful, your users will naturally make it sound nice by shortening it or giving nice sounding names combination.
So, the name of your project matters alot as long as it is a good project