Very cool. Most of these I knew because I read, well, a lot and love etymology. A few I didn’t.
But the author hasn’t quite read enough, as it’s pretty likely that Collins got the last name “Everdeen” from Thomas Hardy’s character Bathsheba Everdene in Far From the Madding Crowd.
By the way in that novel, Everdene’s closest friend is named “Gabriel.” Coincidence? Yeah, no.
People should pay me to research this shit.
I don’t even have to research.