My 2000-person employer (in finance!) names desktop machines with dictionary words and a short seemingly random suffix. So you could be GIRAFFE84F, there won't typically be other giraffes.
Servers get names that are concatenations of meaningful abbreviations that are meaningless to an outsider, you might be on nycfithro603.
Actually I can't think of any org I've worked for that had random strings for its physical machines. Cloud VMs, yes (though not always).
My experience is completely different. Having worked in companies between 15 and 15k employees, I've never seen anything other than random strings.
A while ago I wrote a script that uses GPT to generate some machine names and then check them for collisions with existing ones. So no suffixes needed. I thought I was innovating, hahaha. Very interesting.
Servers get names that are concatenations of meaningful abbreviations that are meaningless to an outsider, you might be on nycfithro603.
Actually I can't think of any org I've worked for that had random strings for its physical machines. Cloud VMs, yes (though not always).