Full disclosure: I have only seen the movies, and certainly the prequels only once; this is for a project.
Is there a naming convention for any of the Star Wars characters? Names like Luke & Leia are pretty white bread, while Obi-Wan Kenobi, etc. I understand that this is a very large galaxy, so a lot will not be explained, but are there any references in or out of the movies for characters' names? Even if there are any in 'the real world,' from the creators.
Here's what George Lucas said about Star Wars names.
"Basically, I developed the names for the characters phonetically,'' Mr. Lucas said. ''I obviously wanted to telegraph a bit of the character in the name. The names needed to sound unusual but not spacey. I wanted to stay away from the kind of science fiction names like Zenon and Zorba. They had to sound indigenous and have consistency between their names and their culture."
This article also talks about where some specific character names came from.
"I have a little book and I just write names all day long,” he explained. “You just riff on that idea and you end up with a bunch of names. I have hundreds and hundreds, even thousands of names."
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