I haven't the faintest idea what you're talking about, but quite a bit of Earth history hasn't survived to this century. The STAR Labs scientists that genetically engineered him may have indeed made a historical reference to another famous specimen in naming him.

[He tries to get away from the subject of Koko because he really did love that stupid monkey and shed an actual stupid tear over him choosing to stay on that planet. He smiles at Robbie's joke about naming a planet.]

I'm not sure that would be considered acceptable by UP planetary naming conventions, but if you throw in a completely random apostrophe or a hyphen somewhere, it'll be fine.