I love the concept of math theorems that are best known as someone's "conjecture," eg the Poincare Conjecture. Someone just took a guess and now their name is on it rather than the person who actually proved it. Truly iconic.
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in reply to @bruno's post:
the only one i can think of that actually changed names is the taniyama-shimura-weil conjecture, which is now usually known as the modularity theorem, presumably because "modularity" is so much easier to say. andrew wiles didn't get his name on fermat's last theorem, and he didn't even get his name on the other theorem he proved to prove fermat!