Niven has described the band's naming process as follows: "The idea as I saw it was to try to take contemporary R&B pop music and fashion a vaguely Futurist project out of it, and between the two of us we chose the name Everything Everything, a détournement of sorts of an over-saturated media culture into something idealistic and expansive".
Niven har beskrevet bandet's navngivnings proces som følger: "ideen, som jeg så det, var at forsøge at tage moderne R&B-pop-musik og lave et vagt futuristisk projekt ud af det, og mellem de to af os, at vi valgte navnet Everything Everything, et form for détournement af en over-mættet medie kultur til noget idealistiskt og ekspansivt".