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Names out of your ethnicity

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Trinaluce · 25/03/2011 16:15

Just a question of curiosity here: are there any names you love but would never use as they're out of your ethnicity? I know a little boy called Suraj and my colleague is called Mojisola - both of which I think are gorgeous but would never use as I feel they're perhaps too grounded in each person's background.

Anyone else got any names they like in this vein?

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marriednotdead · 25/03/2011 16:50

I know exactly what you mean. I wanted DS to be called Tico but xp thought it sounded daft Spanish and we're not.

Suraj seemed lovely when I first saw it written in school, but when said quickly in a London playground, it sounds very like 'sewage'!