Star Wars : Why is Skywalker the only English name in Star Wars

There's probably some exception I haven't thought of but it seems like Skywalker is the only prominent surname in Star Wars that's clearly derived from English (or 'common galactic' or whatever the Star Wars code for English is) since it's a compound of two English words. Every other name in Star Wars - Organa, Palpatine, Kenobi, Erso, Fett - is made up, the implication being that they're derived from some other language that exists in the the Star Wars universe. "Solo" is a possible exception, but it's not quite clear if that name is meant to be derived from the English (actually Italian) synonym for alone, or from some other language in the galaxy.

The name presumably comes from a slave lineage, since Anakin was a slave. I wonder if in Star Wars there's a tradition of giving slaves common speech names, sort of the way Game of Thrones does with children born out of wedlock.

(I know the real answer is that George Lucas didn't give it that much thought, but it seems like the writers could come up with a cannon explanation.)

Salacious Crumb has an English name

Starkiller Base is named after a family with an English name.

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Every other name in Star Wars - Organa, Palpatine, Kenobi, Erso, Fett - is made up, the implication being that they're derived from some other language that exists in the the Star Wars universe.

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"Organa" contains "Organ". Looks like we're focused on surnames. We can't forget the prequel characters, e.g. Gunray. There is also "Wicket", but the name is never very clearly uttered, in the OT. Similar is the case with Darklighter, Crumb and Fortuna. (I don't know if prepositions like "for" count.) Although, Wicket is perhaps more pronounced in the Ewoks series. Since Ewoks only have one name, their names count as surnames.

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Starkiller Base is named after a family with an English name.

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It is? I know in the original draft of Star Wars 1977 Luke's name was going to be Starkiller, but I didn't know that in the current canon the name Starkiller belonged to actual people. AFAIK it's just the name of the base, and of course it's drawn from English words, but then so is Death Star.

I kind of hope it's not true; Starkiller is a stupid name for actual characters. Skywalker at least sounds like a name; "Walker" is a common English last name in the real world. But nobody has the name "Killer". It's too violent; it would be like a family having the name "Treerapist" or something.

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"Organa" contains "Organ". Looks like we're focused on surnames. We can't forget the prequel characters, e.g. Gunray. There is also "Wicket", but the name is never very clearly uttered, in the OT. Similar is the case with Darklighter, Crumb and Fortuna. (I don't know if prepositions like "for" count.) Although, Wicket is perhaps more pronounced in the Ewoks series. Since Ewoks only have one name, their names count as surnames.

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I never thought that Wicket's name was supposed to be drawn from English; I assumed that the phonetic similarity to the English word wicket was supposed to be incidental, what linquists call a false cognate. Since the Ewoks don't even speak English, it defies logic that their names would actually be drawn from English words. Same goes for Bib Fortuna and Salacious Crumb. You've got a point with Biggs Darklighter though, that's one I didn't think of.

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Starkiller Base is named after a family with an English name.

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I have to confess that this remark was some tongue-in-cheek nonsense.

Not English, but this is interesting:

https://www.facebook.com/cbacanoriega

Darklighter, Solo, Bridger come to mind.

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