A complete aside from absolutely everything, but I'm running through the details of various US counties. Because. Maybe you'll see why later...
And so I've currently got this randomly sorted list which seems just scream personal names if you combine adjacent county names, mostly just shaving off the "county" (or "borough" or "parish") but occasionall a little extra licence.
i.e.
Charlotte Manistee (Florida and Michigan)
Phillip S. McCracken (Arkansas and Kentucky)
Taney Halifax (Missouri, Virginia)
Craig Washington (Oklahoma and... in this instance... Idaho)
Brooke St. Louis (W. Virginia, Minnesota)
Lynne Somerset (Iowa (act. "Linn") and NJ)
Tripp Hopkins (SD, TX)
Pearl Magoffin (Mississippi, Kentucky)
(St.) Francis Throckmorton (Arkansas, Texas)
Thomas Hancock (Kansas, Missouri)
Fergus Gregg (Montana, Texas)
Tinian Perkins (somehow the Northern Marianas crept into this list, and then South Dakota)
Jackson T. Green (TN, TX)
...Howard Berrian, Juneau Goodhue, Johnson Box-Butte, Nottaway Van Zandt, Winn Brazoria, Menard Scioto, etc, but I'll stop now. (These aren't deliberately (mis)matched, I just pre-randomised the list to avoid accidentally dwelling on Alaska before Wisconsin, etc, and I actually skipped over some boring 'normal' names just there... There are impossible-looking combos, but not in this little stretch.)
But if I ever write that novel, I've sure got a load of ready character names (or nicknames... Granite Douglas, Hot Spring Jackson, Beaver Jenkins) with various and diverse suggestive plot-driving personalities.
Just thought it'd be a change of pace. But carry on carrying on!