Elle: I've heard this as potentially being short for Elanor, Ellen, and Elizabeth (or any other name that begins with 'El'), but as we see a file with her name listed as "Bishop, Elle", I don't think it's supposed to be short for anything. It wouldn't surprise me if she had a different real name... but the Heroes writers also like to think they're clever, so whatever.
While there's the obvious fun that it's a pun (and really, I love puns), I also like that the name meaning itself is... rather plain. It's "she" in French. Not even 'girl', but just the feminine singular pronoun. Which really strikes me as appropriate for someone who was seen as an experiment rather than a person for at least some significant part of her life - it doesn't assign any particular trait or personality to her, just designates one of the most basic aspects of her, her gender. That combined with the pun just makes it an incredibly basic descriptor of who she is (female, electrical ability), and defines her in the way she likely would have been seen while pretty much treated as an experiment.
No, I did not propose this question for that, I have no idea what you're talking about.
Behrooz: It means 'good day' in Persian. Setting aside that the Turkish character has a Persian name and all those other 'Turkish' characters around him speak Arabic (research, people, it's not that hard), anyone remotely familiar with 24 knows that a character on that show having a name that means 'good day' is... uh. Really fucking ironic.
Jim: Short for James, which babynames says means "supplanter." I... uh. Got nothing.
Mei: There is something of a funny story behind this - Mei is from the English word for the fifth month "May." Her older sister is name Satsuki, which is the Japanese word for the fifth month on the lunar calendar. The similar names came out of the fact that My Neighbor Totoro was originally about one girl, but was changed to be about the two sisters. Plus I imagine Mei would enjoy the springtime in May.
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While there's the obvious fun that it's a pun (and really, I love puns), I also like that the name meaning itself is... rather plain. It's "she" in French. Not even 'girl', but just the feminine singular pronoun. Which really strikes me as appropriate for someone who was seen as an experiment rather than a person for at least some significant part of her life - it doesn't assign any particular trait or personality to her, just designates one of the most basic aspects of her, her gender. That combined with the pun just makes it an incredibly basic descriptor of who she is (female, electrical ability), and defines her in the way she likely would have been seen while pretty much treated as an experiment.
No, I did not propose this question for that, I have no idea what you're talking about.
Behrooz: It means 'good day' in Persian. Setting aside that the Turkish character has a Persian name and all those other 'Turkish' characters around him speak Arabic (research, people, it's not that hard), anyone remotely familiar with 24 knows that a character on that show having a name that means 'good day' is... uh. Really fucking ironic.
Jim: Short for James, which babynames says means "supplanter." I... uh. Got nothing.
Mei: There is something of a funny story behind this - Mei is from the English word for the fifth month "May." Her older sister is name Satsuki, which is the Japanese word for the fifth month on the lunar calendar. The similar names came out of the fact that My Neighbor Totoro was originally about one girl, but was changed to be about the two sisters. Plus I imagine Mei would enjoy the springtime in May.