What's ridiculous is people keep using random (not common) names to describe anything in the Hobby over in the USA and have no idea the damage this causes. It is pure laziness as opposed to learning or using the proper names that are officially recognized. Sometimes there are no common GIVEN names for a gecko, but this does not mean one should be made up by everyone and their grandmother just to satisfy their laziness for learning or saying the proper Latin name instead. Sometimes, just sometimes a random name used in the Hobby becomes a recognized common GIVEN name, but this is very rare.
I was born and grew up in the USA, I had many different things which I kept over in the USA and do you know to this day, I cannot name half of the animals i had to people due to the wonky random names people used back then, the searches in Google come up with nothing. Whenever it comes up in conversation here the Europeans just nod their heads and laugh, I won't even bother saying what they say afterwards.
I am not saying it is not done here as well with the random names, but it is far far less compared to the USA.