What hints does the name "J. Alfred Prufrock" give us about the character of the "hero"?

Concerning Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,"
the name Eliot uses is considered to be highly stylized.  This is probably the most
important aspect of the name.

The name does suggest a
businessman, also, but this is probably not so vital.

The
name, J. Alfred Prufrock, being so formal, contrasts with what one usually thinks of
with the words:  love song.  And that's the point.  In other words, the connotations, or
word associations, of "J. Alfred Prufrock," contrast with the connotations of "love
song."

That is the speaker's state of existence.  He
contrasts with anything that can be termed a love song.  He is socially inept.  He is on
his way to ask a woman some vital question during tea, and he never even makes it
there. 

He is isolated and alienated and socially
ineffective.  His love song is not much of one. 

This
contrast, by extension, is also the state of modern man.  Humans are alienated and
isolated, and the speaker represents all of us.