Yeah, when I first heard of that, I immediately thought it was a name coming from a character in some other JRPG...
While on one hand the name certainly sounds foreign (like of Greco-Roman linage), on the other hand, I feel it provides even more of a mysterious aura about him.
Who knows, perhaps the eventual remake will shed more light on this, there's still a lot we don't know about N's full history and the like.