What bothers me about the name, upon reflection, is that the now-cannon explanation basically establishes that Solo in the Star Wars universe actually means “alone” instead of being merely a series of sounds/letters which in English has an extra meaning.
I mean, realistically these characters wouldn’t be speaking English, but instead some alien dialect which is portrayed as English for the purposes of movie. Now for this to work, Han’s last name must translate to ‘lone wolf’ or something in that alien dialect and sound like an English word which has a similar meaning.
How very confusing.
Hopefully if Solo 2 ever gets made they can get to the bottom of this.
Seriously though, there’s no ‘realistically,’ as realistically the GFFA does not exist in our galaxy, so it’s not necessarily necessary to assume that the language they’re speaking isn’t in fact, exactly the same as English. Not to mention, if we go down a ‘realistically’ rabbit hole, wouldn’t realistically a lot of the names be different? What are the chances that “Ben” and “Luke” are sounds that happen to be first names in both English and this imaginary dialect? Why couldn’t the names be ‘translated’ just like the other words?