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The nm the utility to list symbols in a binary doesn’t include in its documentation any explanation or clue of how it got to be named nm.
I imagine some of the long experienced UNIX developers can shed some light.
Why is the nm utility named as such?
It’s an abbreviation for “names” or “name list”.
(V7 Unix manual, 1979)