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This is an excerpt from the Camaro official history:

...as the launch date neared, the car still had no
name. It had been called various names by GM, including
Nova, Panther, Chaparral, and Wildcat. Chevy also
considered using the letters "GM" in the name, and came
up with G-Mini, which evolved into GeMini, and finally
Gemini. General Motors Headquarters killed that name,
because they didn't want the letters "GM" used in case
the car was afailure.

Finally, the car was introduced to the press as the
Camaro, considered to be a good name because nobody
knew what it meant. Chevrolet produced an old French
dictionary showing that the word meant "friend" or
"companion", but Ford found an alternate meaning in an
old Spanish dictionary-"a small, shrimp-like creature."
The automotive press had a good laugh over that, and an
even bigger one when one journalist found yet another
meaning-"loose bowels."