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I've seen 人 used as a character in multiple names.
李劼人 is an example of a fairly well known person with the character 人 in his name.
It seems slightly jarring that 人 - person would be a feature of a name, I'm guessing there is more to it - but I've not been able to find a convincing answer online yet.
Any ideas?
Having 人 in the name is not uncommon, especially the first character of the first name
"人 (X) " = 人中之(X) " = (X) among man
Examples:
苗人鳳 - phoenix among man
狄人傑 - elite among man
張人龍 - dragon among man
蒒人貴 - noble among man
聶人王 - king among man
It is less common to have 人 in the second character of a first name, because 人 is pronounced the same as '仁', which is a far more popular second character in first name
Many people might not want their child to have to correct people all the time by telling them it is '人' not '仁' in his name
But it is not unreasonable to use 人 as the second character of a first name
(X)人 = (X)之人 = 'a man who (X)'
Examples:
張學人 - a man who learns
陳正人 - a man who is just
陸敬人 - a man who is respectful
Of course, 張學人, 陳正人 and 陸敬人 might have to tell people all the time that their names are not 張學仁, 陳正仁 and 陸敬仁 (all legitimate names)
It is not that strange since English names also contain jobs (Smith) that are not used in names of Chinese.
A name is only a tag to mark a specific person. As long as the community accept it, it can use any possible combinations. For example, my parents gave me the name of a Chinese emperor.
It seems slightly jarringreally? There's a few Western names which end in things like -man, although I can only think of last names at the moment.