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[Opinions] How did SpongeBob SquarePants get his name?
Ok so I know that they changed SpongeBoy to SpongeBob because their is a mop called SpongeBoy and that SquarePants is because his pants are square but how did they come up with the “Bob” part in the name SpongeBob

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My guess it is just one letter off from Spongeboy.
You can google this,SpongeBob was created and designed by Stephen Hillenburg, an artist and marine science educator. The character's name is derived from "Bob the Sponge", the host of Hillenburg's unpublished educational book The Intertidal Zone.
because it's just one letter different from boy
Because SpongeJim is too hard to say!
I imagine it's because Bob is only one letter away from Boy, it was probably just that.