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Lately I've come to really love the name Tala for a little girl. I looked around a bit, and it can mean Wolf in Native American, but it can apparently also a form of Natalia which makes it Italian. Mostly I've seen it used as an Arabic name.

Now, I'm neither of these things. I'm Norwegian, and I normally like names like Amanda, Andrea, David and Daniel, and I'm just thinking:

1. In general, using ethnic names when you're not that ethnicity, is that considered weird? Do you think it's strange when you see a name that holds a specific ethnicity in your head on someone who doesn't fit it?

and

2. Does it look strange to give siblings first names that obviously doesn't have the same ethnic background? (For example: Brittany and Sitara)

I know Tala itself isn't that bad compared to my other names, because we do have a girls name in Norway that is Tale (or Thale) and people stick a's in the names when they want so it's close enough, but yeah, it just made me think.