Among African Americans [and otehr Americans??} personal names also are used to reflect parental relationships. Since at least the 18th century some African American females have been given a name similar to their father's personal name. The usual formula is to add a suffix to the name [for example "Johnetta" and "Davina"].

Another common practice [mostly for female names]is to take a portion of the father's name and a portion of the mother's name to make a new name. The resulting name is both unique and meaningful.
For example a female name "Joleya" might have a father named "Joseph" and a mother named "Leah".

My feeling is that if people use their creativity to create names, they can also use their creativity to give meanings to these names, since positive meanings can help enhance a person's self-esteem.
Or they can use the root meanings of those 'made-up' names.

And since I'm not a fundamentalist about anything, I would suggest that people 'play' with the name meanings. In the case of the name "Joleya" for example, I would suggest that the meaning is a combination of the meanings for "Joseph" and "Lee+ yah" [and not "Leah"]

"Joseph" is a Hebrew male name meaning "God will increase" or "God will favor or add good things to {this child}".

I'd use "Lee + yah" and not "Leah" since my purpose is to use the personal name to enhance self-esteem. "Leah" is a Hebrew female meaning "weary". I would opt for the Irish Gaelic name "Lee" that has a more positive meaning- "poetic child"]. I would then suggest that "yah" is just a sound enhancer without any meaning.

Thus my "creative" name meaning for "Joleya" is 'the poetic child who is favored by God'.