Since these cakes became very popular, the product name, imagawa-yaki was adopted around the country (it is not related to the Imagawa clan, a sengoku daimyo (Japanese territorial lord in the Sengoku period).
この商品が評判になったため、今川焼きという商品名が一般名詞化し、各地に広がった（戦国大名の今川氏とは無関係である）。