Their names signified something from their lives- provided an imagery, a mythology . This seems to come right out of psychoanalysis. One of the primary elements of Lacanian psychoanalysis is to get the patient to see that their past and future are created, invented, in the present. The memory is never the original one. It is always already reintegrated, remotivated every time it appears.
Every present has a different past and a different future.
But without the name the subjectivity doesn't show up.