I often have a character's home before I have their name, when I know their roots I look up names from that our neighbouring regions. Usually I just have a feeling as to whether the name is right.
This is definitely something I've thought about. I've even had, intentionally, characters with blocky old names that are attractive. There's no reason why Margaret, who sounds like a nerd or an old lady, can't be a stunning pole dancer.
In that case, the name 'Margaret' would probably just stand out because pole dancers generally don't use their real names, at least to my understanding. (I'm not a pole-dancing nomenclature expert.) When she's dancing, she'd still want to pick a 'sexy' name, and in that case you'd absolutely be good to pick a cheesy, obvious name that relates to exactly what she's doing.
I'm considering a whole new approach to naming characters in general. Write a bunch of names on post-it notes, put them up on the wall, and throw darts. And if I want to be really random, I'll get drunk first.
My immediate impression is that 'Jayce' sounds rather soft. Whereas for the sort of character you are describing I would have imagined they would have a name with a hard-sounding consonant at the end. I tend to just wait until the right name hits me. Sometimes this can take multiple drafts of a story but that's what utterly ridiculous sounding placeholders are for.
The only thing 'wrong' with a name choice is if you choose one that can be confused with another one of your characters. Otherwise, choose whatever you like. If you had a Jayce and a Jayne, this would be a major problem.
I like to pick names by the impression they give - romantic, unusual, pretty, quirky etc. In my WIP I picked Finlay for my MC because I knew a very outgoing Finlay when I was young. And the character is very unusual. I thought it a nice pick for quirky but familiar. And for some reason I'm playing with F names in the book - his mother's name is Felicia, his best friend's name is Eff Reddy, his co-star is an old has-been -- F Lee Conrad (inspired by C Thomas Howell) hopefully it will all tie in together. What's wrong with Jayce?
In the way of these things where [eg] bleach bottle 'Vim' means 'arse' in Spanish, 'Jayce' is the diminutive [I think the word is] of Jason. Jason, taboo in the UK for twenty years, after Jason Donovan, and shell-suited couples called atypically Jason & Tracy mocked in popular parody or winds. My friends Jason & Tracy went as far as to name their children Anoushka and Theodopilis if that makes the point? Plus - Jayce T or Jason T was the first boy to lose his virginity in our school. Fourteen years old, she was something incredible like seventeen.
Kinda Sarah Mohr of The Crow, in the original comics her name was Sherri but she was renamed for the movie because the name is so similar to Shelley, Eric's fiancée.
