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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
What about Chewbacca? Lando Calrissian? Lobot? Palpatine? Those aren't exactly earthish names.
Chewbacca isn't unusual. To me it sounds like a twisting of the phrase "Chew Tobacco." And as someone else pointed out it's usually shortened into "Chewie." Finally, he's a wookiee, he SHOULDN'T have a name that's too ordinary.
Well, I know for a fact that RANDO is a real name (just watch MST3K: The Movie), and Lando is just Rando with an L. Calrissan? A mispronouncing of Carlson.
Who the hell is Lobot?
Palpatine you have a point on. It could be meant to sound foreign. And yea, it is a surname.