# Question about fictional foreign names...

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 18, 2011, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-fictional-foreign-names/568057 "2011-01-18T07:20:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-fictional-foreign-names/568057/21 "2011-01-18T21:02:38Z")

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Take your first pet’s name and the street you grew up on and translate it into the other language.

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**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2011, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-fictional-foreign-names/568057/22 "2011-01-18T22:08:38Z")

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> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> The related article _List of Bulgarians_ is dominated by -ov and -ev and -vic and -ski, but has plenty of non-conforming names, like \*\*
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> Adam Malka
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> Sophia Peer
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> Itzhak Fintz
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> Rosa Brown (!!!)
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> Petar Volgin
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> Chernorizetz Hrabar
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> Dora Gabe\*\*

Most if not all of the names on that list are Jewish - Bulgaria used to have a large and vibrant Jewish community. Their names follow different conventions, obviously. My FIL’s family is from Bulgaria; his last name is derived from a Turkish word for tax collector, while his mother’s maiden name is Spanish in origin.

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