Silly Bastian, Final Fantasy IX has been available for purchase for over ten years now.
Well, the other main guy, Sol, his name means "sun" in a number of languages. Square has a hard-on for these naming schemes (weather names in FFVII-XIII, earth/sea/sky names in KH, etc.) and just figure we're too stupid to notice if they try and be subtle.
Seriously though, between this and 4 Heroes (which I really should get around to picking up) I'm much more interested in Square's side-projects these days than whatever they're vomiting up in the main numbers.