Lucasfilm officially released the name of the characters you have seen in the trailer previously. They released them in a very geeky way of Topps trading cards, which debuted on Entertainment Weekly.
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The names of the characters include:
Abrams joked, “I’m only sorry we couldn’t give everyone a stick of gum.” The director told the site that there’s a significance to the number on each of the cards. Those numbers are: