'Jihad' is a name, yes. There've been a few famous Jihads. Off the top of my head I can think of a Palestinian leader (Jihad Ahmed Jibril).
Oh. That's it.
I have an acquaintance called Jihad who is a chemist.
While I won't argue that the word sort of deserves its bad press, Sufi people have always meant 'a struggle' by it.
Edit: this is what you should attain through the 'inner jihad':
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to control oneself from acting out one's anger or gratifying addictions,
to negate the thought that one will find fulfillment through these means,
to negate the sense that one cannot escape one's depression, and
to give up imagining that God is absent.
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I think the name's acquired its current associations in the past couple of decades, which isn't to say that it's never been a sort of fiery name, only that it didn't used to mean 'killing innocent people because we detest their government'.
Um.
This is a bit over the top, though.