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[kilobites.livejournal.com]

How do you feel about first-name middle-name combinations where the names are from pretty different cultures or countries of origin and it's very obvious? Do you think they seem 'mismatched'? Does it change your opinion if the names are popular in your country, as opposed to obscure?

For example, I really like the name Dietrich Andrei, but I wonder whether the combination of German and Russian names that are pretty uncommon in the US isn't a little mismatched.

Do you like any combinations of names like this? Can you think of some instances where it works pretty well, or some where it doesn't?

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[lilacmermaid.livejournal.com]

I think it's cool if those names are from the parents' cultures, otherwise it seems a little odd. Then again, Dietrich would be considered really unusual in North America anyway, no matter what the middle name was.

I think I like it better when the first name is something not too unusual in the country where the child will be raised, but the middle name represents the other parent's culture.

[frost.livejournal.com]

This.