History Main / StockForeignName

** And helped by British Indian actress Indira Varna.

** ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'' 1 and 2 have Abdullah Doo, the pudgy merchant from [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Shapeir]]. The same game also has a part where if you rob a certain house and are detected, the owner will shout the names of his sons, [[IncrediblyLamePun Kareem, Abdul and Jabbar]], respectively.

* Names with a -tun sound, like Mutumbo or Tunde
* Names with a click sound

* An English first name with a distinctly non-English last name, probably due to famous Africans like Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu.

** Creator/OgdenNash: "No [=McTavish=] / Was ever lavish."

* Many African-Americans may choose to adopt non-Western invented names or names of African origin to distance themselves from their 'slave' roots. For similar reasons, with the rise of The Nation of Islam among Black Americans with its focus upon Black advocacy (and its lasting effects), expect to see more 'Islamic' names, often of Arabic origin, on the list.

** Usually associated with older Black women.

** {{Justified|Trope}} as 53.04% of U.S. Americans with the surname 'Jackson' are Black, and it's the sixth most common surname among Black Americans as a whole.

** {{Justified|Trope}} as 74.24% of U.S. Americans with the surname 'Jefferson' are Black.

** {{Justified|Trope}} as 87.53% of U.S. Americans with the surname 'Washington' are Black.
** [[Videogame/HouseOfTheDeadOverkill Detective Isaac Washington]].

** Blake Carrington, patriarch of the mega-rich Carrington clan from ''Series/Dynasty1981''.

** In a German name, "von" really is an aristocratic prefix; the similar sounding "van" in Dutch names, however, is common as dirt. (The Dutch-descended Music/LudwigVanBeethoven tried to pull a fast one on the Austrian nobles by way of this confusion.) However, what's being signaled with the Dutch names isn't that the ancestors were aristocrats in the Netherlands, but rather that the family has been in America--especially New York--for a very long time (probably since the 17th century). A prime example of this is the [[UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt Roosevelt]] [[UsefulNotes/FranklinDRoosevelt family]], whose name isn't particularly distinctive in the Netherlands (it means "rose field") but sounds upper-crust to Americans (and would even if the family hadn't produced two presidents).

** This is actually a relatively modern Welsh name, in common use only since the middle of the 20th century.

** Shin Hayata from ''Series/Ultraman''.

** Tonio Trussardi in ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable''.

** Giovanni Battista

** Giuseppe Garibaldi, the man who unified the Italian peninsula in the 1800s.

** Giuseppe Verdi, famous opera composer

** Guido in ''Franchise/{{Cars}}'', who only speaks Italian.

** As in Luciano Pavarotti.

* Alessia

* Carmela (mostly southern Italian)
* Concetta[[note]]"Conception". Given in reference to the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary, i.e. it's a Catholic thing. [[/note]]

** Parodied in ''VideoGame/RuneScape'' which features an entire town where every NPC is named Ali.
** ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} "Prince Ali, fabulous he..."]]''

** ''Series/TwentyFour''
** ''Series/{{Lost}}''

** Franchise/DonaldDuck is also of Scottish descent.

** Olaf from ''ComicBook/{{Blackhawk}}'', though he was actually Swedish in the original series, then Danish after the continuity reboot. ''[[CatchPhrase Py yimminy]]'', that's close, though, isn't it?

** [[Franchise/TheSimpsons Cletus, The Slack-Jawed Yokel]]

* Natalie

** Jessiebelle from ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}''.

** Creator/{{Funimation}}'s DubNameChange for ''Manga/DetectiveConan'''s [[AbsentMindedProfessor Hiroshi Agasa]], hammering in the [[UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein Einstein]] parody even further.[[note]]If you're curious, "Hiroshi" is meant to be a pun on the Japanese word for "professor"[[/note]]

* Assunta[[note]]"Assumption". Given in reference to the assumption of the Virgin Mary into heaven, i.e. it's a Catholic thing.[[/note]]
** Originally short for Maria Assunta; cf. below.

* Lorenzo[[note]]'Lawrence'[[/note]]

* A common Anglo-American first name followed by [[LukeNounverber a surname composed of two common English words]], often one of them an animal or the word "star" or "foot". E.g. [[ComicBook/XMen James Proudstar, Danielle Moonstar]], [[Film/NaturalBornKillers Warren Red Cloud]], [[Series/NorthernExposure Marilyn Whirlwind]], [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Leah Clearwater]], [[WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill John Redcorn]], etc.

** [[AcceptableTargets Played straight]] in Music/WeirdAlYankovic's ''Amish Paradise'':

* [[Film/BackToTheFuture Jennifer]]--always a (hot) girlfriend

*** Creator/BillOReilly from the Creator/FoxNewsChannel.