As far as British forces are concerned two word code names are used for excercises and one word names are used for actual operations (e.g. Granby, Corporate, Telic, etc). The names are chosen at random by computer.
There is an account in Dan Mills' excellent Sniper One about commanders using London Underground stations as codenames.
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