Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: Googol: The term was coined in 1938 by 9 year old Milton Sirotta (1929–1981), nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner. Kasner popularized the concept in his book Mathematics and the Imagination (1940).he term Googol was coined in 1938[1] by 9 year old Milton Sirotta (1929–1981), nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner. and Google was a company and a brand. Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google. flying-spaghetti · 5 years ago.