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Today, for some reason, I remembered the existence of Twm (basically the Welsh form of "Tom," since W can be a vowel in Welsh). This got me wondering whether today, in a world where the English language dominates, someone could have a Latin alphabet legal name that contains no English vowels. Searching this database, these were the forenames I found:

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Črt (Slovene)
Tswb (Hmong)
Twm (Welsh)
Xwm (Hmong)
Dhvh (Aramaic)
Dhwrhm (Bodo)
Frwdwr (Welsh)
Gwrwst (Welsh)
Rwg (Hmong)
Tswv (Hmong)
Vlf (Swedish)
&
Gwhd (Anaang)
Nk-rxng (Thai)
&
Kwm (Hmong--unisex)
T9C (American South, either archaic or folklore)

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For surnames, I found:

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Ng (Cantonese & Hokkien)
Ch'ng (Hokkien)
Gr (Indonesian)
Kwm (Hmong)
Mc (Anglicized form of Irish or Scottish Mc- names where everything after "Mc" was dropped)
Png (Hokkien)
Rm (Indonesian)
Sch (apparently Ukrainian)
Th (English--this might be a clerical error, though, along with Sch; Mc is much more common than both)
Tswb (Hmong)
Vlk (Czech & Slovak)
Vwj (Hmong)

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In most of these names, the W acted as a vowel; but I'm still getting a kick out of the fact that the following could, theoretically, be people's real names:

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Frwdwr Mc
Gwhd Th
Črt Vlk
Kwn Tswb
Twm Ng
Xwm Png

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This message was edited 11/3/2024, 5:37 PM