Kakarrot/Kakarotto
Probably one of the funniest, or strangest, depending on how you look at it, things about the DragonBall series is that all of the characters (and even some attack names) are punned. With Goku, there's no exception.
Goku's Saiya-jin name, Kakarrot, or Kakarotto, is a pun on the vegetable, carrot. All (full blooded) saiya-jins are punned after a certain vegetable. Vegeta, for example, is a pun of the word
vegetables, with he being a prince and his father being the king of Planet Vegeta. Because of this, all of the Saiya-jins are punned after other vegetables. Radditz, Goku's brother, for example, is a pun off of the vegetable radish, Broli is a pun of the vegetable broccoli, and so on...
However, even though Goku's "real" name may be Kakarrot, no one addresses him by it, with the exception of Vegeta (and several other full blooded saiyajins such as Broli, etc.) who always makes it a point to call him Kakarotto (Kakarrot).
To learn more about Goku's name, click here.
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