Ishiro Serizawa also refers to him as 'Gojira', before 'Godzilla' is formally used. According to Eiji Serizawa, 'Gojira' is a Japanese conjunction of gorira (ゴリラ ?), meaning 'gorilla', and kujira (鯨 or クジラ), meaning 'whale', as with most incarnations of the name. Godzilla originally gained his true name from the Pacific islanders, who referred to him as 'Gojira'.
In Godzilla: Awakening, Godzilla is referred to as a ' MUTO' (Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism) due to him not having a name at the time. 5.4 Between Post-2014 to Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.
