Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Hector Barbossa" in English language version.
Terry Rossio: I definitely feel that Barbossa's first name kind of came about through the Internet. I don't know if it was Johnny [Depp] who dubbed Barbossa's first name Hector but somehow it wound up on the Internet and everyone started calling him Hector. We went ahead and put it in. Ted Elliott: I think in one of the behind-the-scenes [home entertainment features], Geoffrey [Rush] and Johnny [Depp] were joking about Barbossa's first name and Johnny came up with Hector. He became Hector Barbossa.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link){{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)And speaking of names, again not sure if this has appeared elsewhere, but reading online, fans started to refer to Barbossa as "Hector". Apparently Johnny and Geoffrey were goofing around and came up with Hector as Barbossa's first name, and it was caught on one of the DVD features. All we knew was that suddenly seemed to be his name, the fans had decided, so we made a point of writing it into AT WORLD'S END. We ran the idea past Johnny and Geoffrey, and they loved it.