What's in a Name?

As you may or may not know, my first name means cypress tree.

Which looks like this:
Up until about three days before I was born, my name was supposed to be Taraneh (which means song). Right around that time, my dad was reading a novel which he then passed on to my mom. Guess what the heroine's name in this novel was? If you said Sarvenaz, you win a blogger gold star.
My sister, who was born 3 1/2 years later, was named after a flower but also given a name that "went" with mine: Golnaz. That's k...