>I read quite a bit and I try to avoid anything at all that has been used including names. That is almost impossible, but I at least don't want a name and a job to be similar!

My P.O. threshold is getting lower and lower with SF names. First two great no-nos are the names ending with -on, -us and names derived from West's past (down to the Greeks, which have somehow ended as the darling of the West, despite their Byzantine nature). If you're writing a possible future, don't be so parochial, swing it wider.

The other is just slapping a consonant+apostrophe+monosyllable, T'pol style, and there you go, a perfectly foreign name. And the acting crew somehow manages to pronounce all those incredibly complicated and strange names, while being perfectly incapable to pronounce knowledge as in acknowledge, but without the first a, or GNU as in ignite, Knecht the way the Germans do, or gnocchi the way Italians do, or to pronounce cyberspace differently from psyberspace, or to pronounce tsunami as it is, not as sssssunami (hey, it's the same as in pizza, and you can pronounce that any time of day) etc etc.