Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-24122282-20151227033542/@comment-4010415-20151227035851

It's likely that it's just a coincidence.

Monty once described how he came up with the name RWBY: He woke up in the middle of the night, wrote down "R W B Y", went back to sleep, then woke up the next morning and tried to figure out what to do with that.