Names after characters

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

So I've become a total The Mentalist geek, gone, whoosh, totally obsessed with the show.
Just for fun, I thought I'd ask what you think of the names Lisbon for a girl and Jane for a boy. These are from the main characters, Teresa Lisbon (chief of the police unit) and Patrick Jane (the mentalist himself).

I've quickly grown to love how Lisbon sounds in english, although I'm not thrilled about it in the written form. And Jane on a boy, I can only picture that as a middle name, but I'm thinking maybe not too weird, considering how many actual girl's names were originally boy's names and so forth..

P.s. I'm in love with Simon Baker...

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[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

Lisbon can work - it immediately makes me think of Portugal, though. Jane on a boy makes me think of Jayne from one of those Joss Whedon shows, I don't watch them but I know there's a man named Jayne, correct? I think Firefly.

Anyway, a lot of girl's names were originally boy's names. I wouldn't find it at all weird to meet a boy named Courtney, Ashley, Leslie, or Shannon. But Jane isn't one of them! It's a feminized version of John, and I'd think it strange that a person named their boy child Jane instead of John.

ETA: Am I really the only person who didn't make the Lisbon/"lesbian" connection? I mean, I can see where people could stretch it to make the tease work, but Lisbon is pronounced quite differently from "lesbian."