User blog comment:Artiepenguin/Was Monroe's name ever Eddie?/@comment-1966944-20120218091751/@comment-209.152.45.35-20121115181319

I must agree with this. I myself am a writer and I change the names of my characters (sometimes six or seven times) before I actually submit the story to anyone. One of my recent most characters was named Lonnie, Emmit, Cecil, Lonnie again, Sam, and Ben before I settled on Johnny. It happens.

Personally, I think I am going to stick with what Silas Weir Mitchell said about his name being "just Monroe." After all, it is HIS character and wouldn't be the first one with a single name. (Heck, some just have a single letter.)