Talk:Melissa McCall/@comment-10489731-20130606030524/@comment-5374985-20130620192500

Many divorced women keep their married names until they remarry, especially if they have children who carry the name. No big deal and pretty common.

Jeff has mentioned in previous interviews that most of the characters' names have been selected carefully for their meanings, but he hasn't gone into any further detail to my knowledge. I find it kinda facinating. McCall is an interesting choice for Scott since the Olde Gaelic translation is "son of battle-chief". The Old Saxon translation for surname Hale is "hero". Lahey is derived from the old Gaelic word laochdha, which means "heroic". See what I mean? I hope that Jeff will someday give us more info about how/why he chose the chararacters' names.