Calling All You Writers!

I wrote a post for Strictly Writing today, the idea having come to me last week day as I was musing over my latest WIP's character names. What's come up is it's really interesting what characteristics the name of a character prompts in other people?

I come up with names quite easily and I usually stick to them i.e. they're instinctive and immediately 'real' for me. I confess that I've always imagined that my reader will feel that same instinct and feel that same 'fit' of the name to the character. The comments on the Strictly post have assured me I'm wrong! AAARgh! When I posed the question what characteristics a certain name conjures up...the answers have been SO different. Have a peak over on the site?

So I've decided to turn it around and ask you wonderful lot a slightly different question:

If this character existed : A young pretty, shy, female divorcee with one child, living in a thirties semi on the outskirts of London, still on amicable terms with her ex, a sous chef in highly rated restarant, no siblings, not close to her mother because of a violent past... What would you call her? And if through her daughters school, she befriended a married couple who lets say are not all they seem...what would you call them?

Ta muchly!