I feel like I posted here already.
"Jared Meadows" -- First name, I actually lifted from
Jared Carthalion of Magic: the Gathering, or at least, this seems to be the earliest incarnation I can think of hearing and liking / digging the name, how it 'looked', how it sounded, etc. There may have actually been a second instance that really brought this memory up again, and led to me running with it, but I also know I was trying to feel out some variation of
Gerrard Capashen (also MTG, yeah, I know) at some point, and they are similar sounding, but... that's where it goes.
As for the last name, which is primarily for story / fiction purposes (whichever), I think I was reading a lesson of some sort on how to name characters, and that a starting point for last names was something to identify the character with or that could be related to them, which for the current writing draft I was doing... started and ended in a meadow, for the character (who was nameless until "his end" or "that iteration of it," blah blah blah). It also was something that made me think of peace, quiet, calm... which is usually the character's demeanor for writing; mentor ish role placement, wisdom and... knowledge, junk.