Aww shit.
Man, I'm telling you, this analysis makes me feel like an asshole. *sigh* I can take the critique so have at me.
I was watching the pilot ep again, I decided to look around on the internet for the meaning of the 14 survivors' names. I figured, what the hell. I went to Arabic websites for meanings, Korean, as well as Irish. All in all, it seems to me that the survivors were not named randomly. Check this out...Here's the name - meaning (now, I don't know the marshall's name or the pilot so I couldn't add that into the mix).
BTW, for what it's worth, we were introduced to sixteen survivors (before 2 died), so this 16 bit really is showing up over and over again.
Sayid - master
Jack - God's gracious gift/God is merciful
Boone - good/timely blessing or benefit
Sawyer - woodsman
Kate - pure
Locke - stronghold/forest
Charlie - manly, strong
Hurley - sea tide
Claire - bright, shining, clear
Rose - flower
Walt - power, warrior
Michael - who is like God
Sun - goodness
Jin - gold, truth, treasure
Shannon - wise one/river
Joanna - God is gracious
There are multiple ways I looked at this.
First, there are set of people whose names begin with "J" -
Jack, Jin, Joanna
"S" - Sayid, Sawyer, Sun, Shannon
Not to mention Charlie and Claire.
So I'm wondering, if these names and name pairs indicate the split of different groups (kind of like the black/white that Locke discussed). What's also interesting to me is "Jack Sheperd" - who has a "J" and "S"...who knows if this means anything.
In addition, the people can be grouped by the meaning of their names roughly.
There are names of people that seem to refer to God (Jack, Joanna, Michael), nature (Rose, Sawyer, Locke, Shannon), goodness & purity (Boone, Kate, Claire, Sun, Jin), and finally, power (Sayid, Walt, Charlie) and perhaps Locke.