Brown and black, cheek and jaw

My post "All the pebbles I have seen" takes its title from a song by Donovan. Bill pointed out that the singer's name means "dark" or "black." More specifically, according to Wiktionary:

From Irish Ó Donndubháin (“descendant of (a person named) brown & black”), from donn (“brown”) and dubh (“black”).

It's not a very common name, Donovan, and so when I happened to glance up from my book to the TV screen playing the Winter Olympics in the café where I lunched today, the name Donovan Carrillo caught my eye. It's the name of a Mexican figure skater.

In keeping with his name ("brown and black"), Carrillo is dressed in black and is racially "brown." Figure skating is, unsurprisingly, dominated by what Leonard Jeffries called "ice people" (Whites and East Asians), and Carrillo is reportedly "the only Latino on the ice at the 2026 Winter Olympics."

Curious about this Donovan's surname, I looked it up and found that Carrillo is a "nickname for a person with some peculiarity of the cheek or jaw, Spanish carillo." Lowercase carillo is defined as "parte carnosa de la cara, desde los pómulos hasta lo bajo de la quijada" ("the fleshy part of the face, from the cheekbones to the lower jaw").

As I mentioned, I saw Donovan Carrillo on TV when I happened to glance up from the book I was reading. That book was Lehi in the Desert by Hugh Nibley. Nibley has this to say about the meaning of the title character's name:

There is a remarkable association between the names of Lehi and Ishmael which ties them both to the southern desert, where the legendary birthplace and central shrine of Ishmael was at a place called Be'er Lehai-ro'i. Wellhausen rendered the name "spring of the wild-ox jawbone," but Paul Haupt showed that Lehi (for so he reads the name) does not mean "jaw" but "cheek," which leaves the meaning of the strange compound still unclear.

So I saw Carrillo, whose name means "cheek or jaw," while reading a book about Lehi, whose name means, depending on which scholar you trust, either "cheek" or "jaw."