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I know plenty of people who marry into different ethnic last names and their first and last names don't "match"... or their children have fn.s of one ethnicity and surnames of another... In this age of mixed marriages and international adoption, it's ethnocentric to expect EVERYBODY's names to match. If some people want their children's names to "match" their heritage, that's fine, but we shouldn't expect everyone to play by such rules if they don't want to. Plus, a large percentage of Chinese Canadians and Jpns. Americans have western fn.s with their Chinese or American surnames... If they can get away with using names so different from their ethnic heritage, I see no reason why it can't go the other way or even just someone from one European descent using names from another European language... It's not that big a deal... and the more common it becomes, the easier it is for people to accept...