Just want to add, the only reason I still have my bible is indeed as an inspiration for names. The part in the beginning where it just lists fathers and their sons and so on for twenty pages was especially helpful, as are the prophets and kings. Might pick up a koran for the same reason (there are people handing them out for free on the streets), don't know the names might be too obviously arabic

I can only recommend it, change one or two letters and voilá!

I suck at inventing names, and rerolling name generators takes away too much of my time because suddenly a random name inspires a completely new character that needs a new character sheet and of course it's nice if you can add a picture for your character as inspiration but then you find another awesome picture that turns into another character that needs a name and suddenly the sun reminds you that there is something that people call "work" that starts in a few hours.

and on catholic schools and why I own a bible:

I went to a catholic private school with school uniform (sadly without plaid skirts), mass every friday, prayer in the morning and so on, and have of course, consequently, grown into a devout pastafari .

As for schools, it was a rather expensive private school, and some teachers were amazing and I will be grateful for them for my entire life, others were ridicolously useless (as in, style of teaching equals minimum effort reading from the history book.) so I can't say if my school was "better" than other schools. But what I can say that we had a big garden (rare in the center of the city) which was awesome and the school was safeR when it comes to crime, violence or drugs compared to public schools, not that regular schools are unsafe, but it simply felt safer and I can count with my fingers everytime somebody had something stolen. The altar boys were mostly potheads for some reason, but that never seemed to bother anyone

I generally do something similar a do an online baby name search for Hebrew baby names, unless the character is an obvious homage to some other famous character like "Jacen Baurne"

... apparently every abednedo in episode vii had a name that was a reference to the Beastie Boys. Ello Asty = Hello Nasty, and his aurebesh helmet saying born to ill.

I didn't make the Ello Asty connection. I should have, but I didn't. That's pretty awesome.

And, there is a Beastie Boys song by the name of 'Shadrach'.