User blog comment:Matt-256/Overuse of American names/@comment-138261-20101127051243

See, whenever I think I'm running out of english names for my SPARTANS, I bring in a few unusual names from the english language, with more unusual (or out of favour), like Dominique being shortened to Domino and Chelsea being shortened to Chess (In honour of the Singer/Skate boarder Duane Peter's tragically dead son.) and so forth. Its a case of finding new and interesting variations of english names, or older names that have fallen out of favour (Like Atticus)