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Yes, I was about to say the same. I tried a few "Hispanic" names and they looked absolutely weird. On the other hand the notion of a "reasonable" Hispanic name can be quite broad. Names in Spain can be very different from names in Argentina (where Italian surnames are quite common) or from US (when it's not uncommon to have an English name with a Spanish last name)

Not sure about that, but other name set can have the same problems if they try to cover a language shared by lots of people (like Arabic)




Yeah I think that trying the bunch all Hispanic names under the same category is part of the problem. There is 400 million native speakers and they are spread over multiple continents, countries and cultures. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map-Hispanophone_World.png

No surprise that names will widely vary from one place to the other.


Yeah, I live in Southern California and I've never heard of 99% of these Hispanic first names.


Actually the Arabic one is pretty accurate.




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