The English Electric Canberra name was not an export pitch

Was the English Electric Canberra named to improve its prospects for Australian sales?

Australia was the aircraft's first export customer, but the name does not appear to have been selected to win that order.

The question connects the English Electric Canberra's name with the aircraft's early Australian sales. Australia became the first export customer, but the name does not appear to have been chosen as a sales inducement. Canberra fits a wider practice of naming aircraft for places rather than treating the Australian capital as a unique marketing device. The answer separates a real export relationship from an attractive but unsupported causal story about naming policy.