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** Hamish [=MacTavish=] in DanielPinkwater's ''The Last Guru''.

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** Hamish [=MacTavish=] [=McTavish=] in DanielPinkwater's ''The Last Guru''.

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* MacDonald

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* MacDonald[=MacDonald=]



** Dr. Moira MacTaggert of ''[[{{Comicbook/XMen}} X-Men]]'' fame (the spelling varies DependingOnTheWriter).
* MacDougal
* [=MacSomethingNotObviouslyIrish=]

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** Dr. Moira MacTaggert [=MacTaggert=] of ''[[{{Comicbook/XMen}} X-Men]]'' fame (the spelling varies DependingOnTheWriter).
* MacDougal
[=MacDougal=]
* [=MacSomethingNotObviouslyIrish=][=McTavish=]




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** Hamish [=MacTavish=] in DanielPinkwater's ''The Last Guru''.
* [=MacSomethingNotObviouslyIrish=]
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* Inga

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* Inga[[TradingPlaces "Hello I am Inga, from Sweden!"]]
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* Inga
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** John "Soap" [=McTavish=] from ModernWarfare.
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** Gunther Hermann from DeusEx.

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* [=DeAnything=]



* Marcus
* Ray-Ray



* Shanice

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* ShaniceShanice (as well as Shaniqua, Shanay, Shanaynay, and anything with the prefix sha-)


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* Anything ending in -isha (Keisha, Kenisha, Tanesha, etc.)
* Mae (older black women)
->Unisex
* Pookie (usually used to describe a stereotypical family member, for example "Call your ghetto cousin Pookie to beat her up")
* Ray-Ray (similar to Pookie in usage)
* Normal names spelled or pronounced wrong, for example the UrbanLegend about Le-a pronounced "Le-dash-a".
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* Didi (French-Canadian)

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* Delacroix
* de Something or du Something, generally



* Gunther



* Hilda



* Any name ending in -vich.

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* Any name ending in -vich.
-vich or -ov.




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* Gonzalez


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* Mary-Lou
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-Surnames

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-Surnames->Surnames

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-Surnames
* Hatch
* Romney
* Call
* Young

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* Brigham




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* Emma
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** Used by Amish in ''{{Witness}}'', ''For Richer or Poorer'', "Murder, Plain and Simple" episode of ''MurderSheWrote'', and ''Harvest of Fire''. Also one of the top five Amish surnames according to John A. Hostetler (the four others are Stoltzfus, King, Fisher and Beiler).

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** Used by Amish in ''{{Witness}}'', ''For Richer or Poorer'', "Murder, Plain and Simple" episode of ''MurderSheWrote'', and ''Harvest of Fire''.Fire'' and ''The Shunning''. Also one of the top five Amish surnames according to John A. Hostetler (the four others are Stoltzfus, King, Fisher and Beiler).

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** Used by Amish in the TimAllen comedy ''For Richer or Poorer'', "The Outsiders" episode of ''{{MacGyver}}'', "Murder, Plain and Simple" episode of ''MurderSheWrote'', ''A Murder in Fulham County'', a theater production "Jacob's Choice" and ''Harvest of Fire''.

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** Used by Amish in the TimAllen comedy ''For Richer or Poorer'', "The Outsiders" episode of ''{{MacGyver}}'', "Murder, Plain and Simple" episode of ''MurderSheWrote'', ''A Murder in Fulham County'', a theater production "Jacob's Choice" and ''Harvest of Fire''. In the musical ''Plain and Fancy'', Jacob Yoder is not a unique name.




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* Zook
** ''Plain and Fancy'': "Also families like Yoder, only more. We got twenty-four families Zook."
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** Professor Friedrich Bhaer from ''LittleWomen''. They do call him Fritz as a nickname, too.


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** Dr. Moira MacTaggert of ''[[{{Comicbook/XMen}} X-Men]]'' fame (the spelling varies DependingOnTheWriter).
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** [[{{NCIS}} Gibbs]].

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* Mei Ling

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* Mei LingMei-ling (or Meiling)




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** [[CharlieAndTheGreatGlassElevator "It is very difficult to phone people in China, Mr. President. The country's so full of Wings and Wongs, every time you Wing you get the Wong number."]]



* [[SakuraGirl Sakura]]
** Sakura Kasugano from ''StreetFighter''.
** Sakura Haruno from ''{{Naruto}}''.

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* [[SakuraGirl Sakura]]
** Sakura Kasugano from ''StreetFighter''.
** Sakura Haruno from ''{{Naruto}}''.
Sakura]] (see that page for examples)



** A common error among anglophones is to spell -son surnames with one "s" (e.g., Anderson), whereas Scandinavians spell them with a doubled "s" (Andersson). The first "s" is a genitive marker, the second the first letter of the word "son". And names that end with an "s" do not take an extra genitive "s", because triple consonants aren't used. Most people of Scandinavian descent in the United States anglicize their surnames by spelling them with one "s", so the error is forgivable.
** This is only true for Swedish names. Danish and Norwegian names typically end in -sen, without the extra s. Many Danish/Norwegian-American surnames exchange the e for an o, for example the family-band The Hansons (Danish-American)

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** A common error among anglophones is to spell -son surnames with one "s" (e.g., Anderson), whereas Scandinavians spell them with a doubled "s" (Andersson). The first "s" is a genitive marker, the second the first letter of the word "son". And names that end with an "s" do not take an extra genitive "s", because triple consonants aren't used. Most people of Scandinavian descent in the United States anglicize their surnames by spelling them with one "s", so the error is forgivable.
** This is only true for Swedish names. Danish and Norwegian names typically end in -sen, without the extra s. Many Danish/Norwegian-American surnames exchange the e for an o, for example the family-band The Hansons (Danish-American)



* See above for surname spelling.

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* See above A common error among anglophones is to spell -son surnames with one "s" (e.g. Anderson), whereas Scandinavians spell them with a doubled "s" (Andersson). The first "s" is a genitive marker, the second the first letter of the word "son". And names that end with an "s" do not take an extra genitive "s", because triple consonants aren't used. Most people of Scandinavian descent in the United States anglicize their surnames by spelling them with one "s", so the error is forgivable.
** This is only true
for surname spelling.
Swedish names. Danish and Norwegian names typically end in -sen, without the extra s. Many Danish/Norwegian-American surnames exchange the e for an o, for example the family band The Hansons (Danish-American)
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\"Niles\" isn\'t even an English name at all, is it?


* Niles

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** More stereotypically Welsh than English.



** More stereotypically Welsh than English.




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* -ski in general.


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* Thomas
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'''Sergei:''' "Boris"... Why always "Boris"?

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'''Sergei:''' "Boris"... [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore Why always "Boris"?"Boris"]]?
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* Sanjay
->Feminine names
* Priya
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*** This troper always assumed that the 'They've killed Fritz!' scene was a reference to an earlier work of RalphBakshi, Fritz the Cat, which ended when, well, They Killed Fritz.
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* Alessandro
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* Giuseppe


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* Nina
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* Wong (or [[DontAnyoneDareWikiLinkThis Wang]])

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* Wong (or [[DontAnyoneDareWikiLinkThis Wang]])
Wong
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** DR. TRAN'S GIVING AWAY THE '''HOT DICKINGS'''.

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** [[DrTran DR. TRAN'S TRAN'S]] GIVING AWAY THE '''HOT DICKINGS'''.
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** DR. TRAN'S GIVING AWAY THE '''HOT DICKINGS'''.

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* Sean
* Seamus

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* Sean
Seán
* SeamusSéamus



* Bridget, up until recently though the success of the (British) ''BridgetJones'' books have probably weakened the association with Ireland.

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* Bridget, Bridget/Brigid, up until recently though the success of the (British) ''BridgetJones'' books have probably weakened the association with Ireland.



** In Dublin fair city, where girls are so pretty, I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone...
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* MacDonald
* Taggart
* MacDougal
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* Angharad
* Seren
* Delyth

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