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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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[mysticamor.livejournal.com]

I know a woman named Oahn...pronounced Juan. I know she's half black and have asian decent. But she told me it was from her asian culture that she was named that.