Nintendo's naming conventions tend to fall into two categories, naming a system in a way that has an obvious association to what the system is and those with a more arbitrary association.
Obvious: Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), Nintendo 64 (N64), Gamecube (GCN), Virtual Boy, Gameboy Advance (GBA), Nintendo DS (NDS) and the Nintendo 3DS (3DS).
Arbitrary: Gameboy (GB), Wii, Wii U
For very understandable reasons Nintendo wants to keep the Wii name which I think makes it more difficult to come up with a meaningful name. The Wii HD has value being that this will be Nintendo's first HD console but I don't think Nintendo wants to put too much emphasis on that. Since their focus is on the controller, there are obvious name choices which are absolutely terrible like Wii Stream, Wii Touch and Wii View.
One thing that might work is a (somewhat) arbitrary name that is (somewhat) attached to the Wii and use the Nintendo Xii (sounds like how Americans say "Z") ... This will be Nintendo's 12th system (NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Wii, Gameboy, Virtual Boy, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance, Nintendo DS, 3DS, Xii), it sounds similar to Wii, and X follows W in the Alphabet. One reason I could see Nintendo not taking this approach is they don't want market confusion between the XBox line and Nintendo's products
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