IITelagen®, (pronounced ī-te-lə-jən with a hard "i" like eye-te-lə-jən) is spelled with a capital "IT" and has a unique origin. Often mispronounced as Intelagen, Intelegen, Inteligen, the name "ITelagen" does not contain the letter "n". When 1st named, the name of "Intelagen" was selected to convey a connotation with “Inteligent”, “IT” and “Internet Generation”, but the letter “n” was dropped. This was done to avoid any confusion with the well known and protected trademark of Intel® from the Intel Corporation.

Other mispronunciations and misspellings often come in the form of either ITalegen, ITeligen or ITelegan.