how do these openings have names?

almost all openings in chess have names but in order for them to have names obviously someone would have to name them but some opening names confuse me because i think "who named this terrible opening?" here are the list i would like to see the history of because i don't know how they ended up existing..

sicilian amazon attack.

ware opening

queens pawn opening amazon attack.

Saragossa opening.

Amar opening  

sodium attack.

Never heard of the first 3.

Saragossa was probably a player that made 1.c3 a popular fad for a couple of months.

The sodium attack is easy.  1.Na3.  Look at the periodic table.  What is the symbol for Sodium?  Na!

here are the moves for the first three

sicilian amazon attack

ware opening.

queens pawn opening amazon attack

These are mostly openings that work against people who haven't learned opening principles. They have names because there are people who enjoy springing them on people. In some cases, they have real enthusiasts who think they're theoretically correct.

Ware Opening

Named after US chess player Preston Ware who often played unusual openings.

Saragossa Opening

This opening became popular in the Saragossa club.

Amar Opening

Acronym for "Absolutely Mad And Ridiculous"

Sodium Attack

Na is the chemical symbol for sodium

Orangutan Opening

When Tartakower went to a zoo somehow an orangutan insisted that he play b4.

Ammonia Opening

Nh3 is the chemical representation of ammonia.

English Opening

English world champion Howard Staunton first used the move c4.

Fred is the name of the F-pawn. http://www.chesskids.org.uk/level2/ncl5l1.htm

No weirder than commonly accepted openings like the Nimzo Indian or Ruy Lopez Exchange Variation Doubly Deferred.

It seems Charles Amar play 1. Nh3 and the acronym was coined retrospectively by Tim Harding.

Nimzo-Indian Defence

It was first played by Nimzowitsch. The word Indian comes from an Indian player named Moheschunder Bannerjee.

c4 is the English opening not c3. 

Amar is a name of a player

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazons

Based on the moves posted by gingerninja2003 above, I suspect the Amazon attacks were named after the Amazon tribe of warrior women from Greek mythology, as both attacks feature early aggressive moves by the white queen.

Opening names is a funny thing. They are subject to fashion even more then the openings themselvs ( their popularity). Also, they vary by country, and depend on someone witty and eloquent to coin a catchy name.

Piotr Kaczorowski in his videochannel, says he can't get used to name "Berlin defence" in Ruy Lopez, because for most of his career it was "Rio de Janerio variation" and only relativly recently eveyrbody switched to calling it the berlin defence. Speaking for Ruy Lopez - for around half of the world it is the Spanish game not the Ruy Lopez. 

King-Indian Defence was known for well over 50 year, when Tartakower coined it's name.

Similar thing with Francenstain-Dracula variation in Vienna Game, a catchy name coined by Tim Hardingin in 70ties.

For the weird openings the Opener listed (and many others similar) i think it goes down to the fact those names has been uploaded by someone into databases, which artificially makes their names much more popular then the openings deserve. Also, names from databases make other names for same openings less popular.

Yes I do know that but Amar Opening became famous through an article which described the opening as Absolutely Mad And Ridiculuos i.e AMAR

I want to learn about Double Whammy.

I fed it into the googlethingee and got 1. c4 e5 2.f4

Now that we all know, who would play this garbage?

in trying to play a smith morra gambit last week, i stumbled on 

1. e4 c5 2. d4 g6 3. Nf3 Bg7 4. c3 b6 5. Bc4 Bb7  Hyperaccelerated Pterodactyl

i stumbled on it so hard I broke my nose

i've also compiled theory for an opening I feel inclined to call the Zeller (variation) Ice Queen because it's based on Qe2 and is BRUTAL at 63:34 in 3,000 games and MOST lines lead to +5 well before move 15!

1.d4 d5 2.e4 Blackmar Diemer Gambit

2...dxe5 3.Nc3 Bf5 Zeller Defense

3.Qe2!? The Ice Queen

y'all are witness to a BIRTH today