Some minor Star Wars characters also have unexpected sources for their identities – like President of the Commerce Guild Shu Mai (in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith) who's named after a traditional pork dumpling criminal Cikatro Vizago in Star Wars Rebels, whose name is actually Esperanto for 'Scar Face' or fighter pilot Ello Asty (in The Force Awakens) who's named after the Beastie Boys album Hello Nasty.

Boba Fett was intended as a reference to Bob Falfa, the drag racer played by Harrison Ford in Lucas's second movie American Graffiti, while that film also gave inspiration for heroic robot R2-D2, when the movie's sound editor used shorthand to refer to 'Reel Two, Dialogue Two' during the post-production process. The name Chewbacca was inspired by Lucas's dog Indiana, while the Wookie race was named after an ad-libbed line from Lucas's first movie THX-1138. Darth Vader's name actually has its roots in Dutch (meaning 'Dark Father'), while other names tapped strongly into mythology – the name 'Anakin' was developed from a race of giants mentioned in the Bible book of Genesis, while 'Skywalker' is a phrase often used to describe Loki in Norse mythology, and 'Luke' means 'light' in Greek, and has direct connections to the Christian saint. George Lucas named the characters in the original Star Wars trilogy by steering away from science fictional words and instead trying to create ones that sounded indigenous and had a sense of some kind of culture. How the Star Wars Characters Got Their Names

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