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[maine-girl.livejournal.com]

At the grocery store, the cashier's name was  Wanita.  I commented on the unusual spelling, and she said her parents were into South American culture at the time and thought they would give her  a Spanish name and then misspelled it.  Nice.
This happened with my cousin Kaeli, whose mom was into Irish folklore and named her thus, not realizing she should have spelled it Ceilidh. 

What do you think of cultural appropration for names?  Examples please.

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[maine-girl.livejournal.com]

I think Meili and Maylie are beautiful. My best friend's name is Maele, and I've been looking for a variation of the spelling in case I ever want to use it.

Regarding Wanita, I definitly agree. It's like spelling Jose "Hosay".

[mayna.livejournal.com]

I actually saw "Maylie" in a baby name book (now that we're debating names for the one I'm pregnant with... Maylie is now 4 yrs old) and was surprised because here I'd thought I made up the spelling. It was listed as a variant under "May".