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The dropping of I (and other subject pronouns) in English is called “diary drop”, after one of the contexts in which it is most common. It is distinct from pro-drop (mentioned by @BillFranke), in Italian and other “null subject languages”, in that it cannot occur, for instance, in subordinate clauses: Think (that) I have understood
The "implied" subject is a common feature of conversation and some writing, especially fiction (not necessarily limited to dialogue). Where the subject is clear, it is frequently omitted. This is a form of ellipsis. Great. [For "That's great."] Such a waste. [For "That is such a waste."] Coming! [For "I'm coming."] There are many more.
A subject pronoun is a pronoun that replaces the noun that is the subject of a sentence. The subject pronouns are: I, you, he, she, it, we, they, and who.
In classical grammar, it is the subject and she the subject predicate, which is in the same (nominative) case as the subject. Your assumption that she is a ''subject pronoun'' is wrong. It is a nominative pronoun, and the nominative is not used only in the subject position but also in subject predicates.
"Subject pronouns must be used in subject positions", along with a few other rules that English never really had, is an 18th-century imposition derived from Latin and Classical Greek. Robert Lowth and Lindley Murray (and their heirs, successors and assigns) meant well (I suppose), but they committed mischief upon our mother tongue, leaving ...
The reason personal gender pronouns are even stated at all is primarily fueled by the LGBTQ community, which has many members who are gender nonconforming and whose pronouns cannot be (easily) guessed. However, stating pronouns also benefits people outside the LGBTQ community, such as anyone with a gender-neutral name or appearance.
Second, recall that the most common allomorph of the relative pronoun that-- even in subject position, which all of these are -- is simply /ə/. I.e, I have a friend called me yesterday could easily have had an almost inaudible epenthetic /ə/ between friend and called .
So (to answer the question in the header on this page) it should be abundantly clear that you can use a contraction with a proper name as well as with a subject pronoun. As for contractions of the type "Karen and Tony've got," they are apt to be less common if only because situations involving a compound subject with Tony as the second element ...
Thee, thou, and thine (or thy) are Early Modern English second person singular pronouns. Thou is the subject form (nominative), thee is the object form, and thy/thine is the possessive form. Before they all merged into the catch-all form you , English second person pronouns distinguished between nominative and objective, as well as between ...
I is of course the normal subject pronoun and me is the normal object pronoun. But in this style, me is also an emphatic variant of I that is used (among other uses) whenever several nouns or pronouns are joined into a single subject or object. This is the most correct style in the sense that it is how educated normal people normally speak.