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In other words, he wouldn't actually use it except when filling in forms? Yeah, why not? Seems to have as many bleak associations as positive ones - save for a rainy day, into each life a little rain must fall, rain, rain, go away - but if it's meaningful to you it'll be meaningful to him too. Which is surely the point?

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Botswana is mostly desert and semi-desert. Rain, understandably, is very important to the people there, and their currency is called the Pula, which means 'Rain'. In the form 'Mapula' (same meaning; pronounced muh POO luh) it is used as a girl name.