interesting names

[minga13.livejournal.com]

I'm a teacher and here are names of the children in my new class. Most are pretty standard names but with a few other interesting ones thrown in. (The kids are either Pacific Island or Maori which does influence some of their names)

---Girls---
Litia
Jesame (jez-ah-may)
Lydia
Tuseilda (tu-sell-da)
Nakita
Sarah
Amelia
Jade
Gaylene
Rene (said the same as Renée)
Julia
Suresa
Coopa

---Boys---
Yoba
Lazarus
Richard
Jose
Arthur
Jacob
Zechariah
Taifeni (thai-fen-ee)
Shannon
Maui
Logan
Nathan