Board Thread:Off-Topic Fun/@comment-8823157-20130513013114/@comment-1846553-20130608000332

Stonicus wrote:

Most people's names in Storybrooke are clues to their other identity. Snow = Mary Margaret (mix of the fake names she gave to Red when they first met) I think they chose Mary Margaret because of this:

"In 1986 Bartels, a German scholar, published an analysis suggesting that the folktale of Snow White was based upon Maria Sophia Margaretha Catherina von Erthal, who was born in Lohr am Main in 1725." Wikipedia

About Mr. Gold's forename, I have no idea. But if I had to name him for fanfiction, I'd choose Adam, like the Beast's real name, as GothicNarcissus mentioned before.