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As for the second part of your comment, I agree. They are funny. Except in places like Latin America, it's not unusual for a person to have a name like, say, Roberto Ming, Lorena Spears, Juan Portelli, Vidal Schwartz, or Eulalia Darwish. That's because millions of people immigrated there from Europe, Asia, and the Middle East in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It does look a little strange for a person to have a Spanish or Portuguese first name and a German, Irish, English, French, Polish, Chinese, or Arabic last name, but it's perfectly acceptable there.

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I was talking about names like Cohen, Gypsy, and Dakota, because I feel they are inappropriate to use on children and offensive to the cultures where the words come from.

This message was edited 8/16/2008, 2:28 PM