I do not think it matters whatsoever name bitcoin was called with. I am pretty sure it wouldn't have had impact whatsoever if Satoshi had decided to name after himself and we have 'Satoshi' instead of 'Bitcoin'.
If you explained the name of bitcoin this way, does that mean that there's a story behind the name of every cryptocurrency out there. I do not think so.
The most important part of a cryptocurrency isn't the name but the services which it aims to provide. Bitcoin enjoys this much popularity not because of its name (no one really care about the name), but because of the freedom and decentralisation it gave to the masses.