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This trope is about characters whose names are a flagrant mismatch of ethnicities and cultures, such as Sakura Mikolajczak or Chandraharam O'Malley. Often, this is seen alongside In the Future, Humans Will Be One Race. Both tropes are indications that the setting is very much a cultural melting pot. In other cases, such names are used to indicate that a character doesn't completely fit in with the culture in which they are living (being a child of the native culture and something else). And sometimes, the author just wanted to mix and match things.
Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })This is much more common in Real Life than it is in fiction. In real life, this often happens for fairly simple reasons. It's fairly common amongst some families who have arrived in a new country. They may give a newly born child a (let's say) English first name, while they retain their (for example) Asian or African last name (e.g. Margaret Cho). This is especially true for families that have lived outside their ancestors' homeland for generations, as they will likely retain their ethnically or regionally specific surname forever, but may prefer modern or culturally relevant first names of their present home. Also, in "mixed-culture" couples, they may take their spouse's name or name their children in a way that represents the cultural mixture; you can expect a character who falls under the Mixed Ancestry trope to have this kind of name. And then there are people who name their children after personal friends, famous people or give them a name that lost some its cultural ties thanks to the aforementioned famous people.
Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Compare Name From Another Species, which is the otherworldly version. Melting-Pot Nomenclature is when names from many different real-world origins coexist side by side, but not necessarily in the same person.
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Happy Days:
Played straight for Arthur Fonzarelli— Celtic first name, Italian surname.
Subverted for the owner of Arnold's. It seems like his name is Arnold Takahashi, but then it turns out that his first name is actually Matsuo and he goes by Arnold while at work because the sign was already there.
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The Hoka story "Undiplomatic Immunity" features the Scottish-Arabic community Bagdadburgh, whose residents have such names as "Zuleika MacTavish" and "Colin MacHussein".
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Angie Yonaga in Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony is Ambiguously Brown and most other characters call her by her first name in the Japanese version. Shuichi even brings up her unusual name and asks whether she's not from Japan.
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In Captain Ufo, there's an alien named Poxu Fukuoka. And there are no humans in the galaxy the series is set in, for all we know.
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The Look Around You episode "Sport" has an extremely Scottish news correspondent named Mario Abdullah-Levy.
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Film adaptation of RENT: Mark says he was taught to tango by a girl named "Nanette Himmelfarb". Also, there is "Angel Dumott-Schunard".
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Abraham De Lacey Giuseppe Casey Thomas O'Malley from The Aristocats. His names are, in order, Hebrew, English, Italian, Irish, Aramaic, and then Irish again. Duchess lampshades this.
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The Addams Family has Gomez Alonso Addams. His first two names are Spanish, while his last name is English.
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The Dragon Doctors has had a few: battle surgeon Goro Delgado (Japanese given name, Spanish surname), who looks like a pale-skinned redhead; Preston Chang; Tomo Wakeman, and so on. Since it takes place over 2,000 years in the future, there's been some melding, too.
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Most of the soldiers in UFO: Alien Invasion have first and last names randomly selected from a database, which is, of course, multiethnic. Peon names range from 'Daniel Danielsen' to 'Naoko Ab Del Farak.'
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Miguel O'Hara aka Spider-Man 2099. As his name suggests he's half-Hispanic and half-Irish.
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Kanuki Clancy from Patlabor has a Japanese given name and an Irish family name, thanks to having a Japanese mother and an Irish-American father.
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Chuck has a character named "Lester Patel". He was actually born in Saskatchewan, Canada, in a "Hinjew" community (he admits it may have been a cult). Hinjew traditions appear to be an amalgamation of Hindu, Jewish, Canadian, and First Nations (e.g. he celebrates Hanukkah but is also being forced into an Arranged Marriage by his parents).
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The Expanse: Set in the future when planet origins are much more important than national ones, most societies are melting pots. This results in names such as Jules-Pierre Mao (owner of Mao-Kwikowski Mercantile), Sadavir Errinwright, and Augusto Nguyễn. The actor playing Mao also fits the bill, since his name is François Chau.
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A Memoir By Lady Trent: In Turning Darkness Into Light, the protagonist Audrey Camherst's full name is Audrey Isabella Mahira Adiaratou Camherst, reflecting her Scirling (fantasy British), Akhian (fantasy Arabian), and Talu (fantasy African, presumably West Africa) ancestry.note Though her Akhian ancestry is through her step-grandfather Suhail, who she is not related to by blood. She is explicitly mentioned to have dark brown skin.
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Just about everyone in the Honor Harrington series once you learn their full name. The title character's mother's full name, for example, is "Allison Benton-Ramirez y Chou Harrington". This is common enough among the Andermani, especially the nobility, since they're ethnically Chinese but are modeled after Prussia. An occasional acquaintance of Honor's is Chien-lu Anderman, Herzog von Rabenstrange.
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In the Discworld, one of the oldest-established and most honourable families in Agatea, alongside the Hongs, Sungs, Fangs, etc, is the McSweeneys. People get defensive about this and tell you they're an old-established Agatean dynastic family whose origins are lost in the mists of Time, and that the McSweeney dynasty gave Agatea some of its finest and most sought-after artworks and cultural artefacts.
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In Umineko: When They Cry, all of Kinzo Ushiromiya's children and grandchildren have Western given names: Krauss, Eva, Jessica, George, and..."Battler". Like the example with Death Note above, though, their names are all written in kanji despite being Western, which adds more meaning to them in Japanese.
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Melinda Qiaolian May in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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In République, the Headmaster's name is Kenichiro Treglazov. His last name indicates a Russian father, and his mother is revealed to be Ainu (an ethnic group that lives in Japan and Russia), although the first name is clearly Japanese.
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Pretty rampant in Miraculous Ladybug, including the main heroine, Marinette Dupain-Cheng, who uses both her French-Italian father and Chinese mother's last names, and almost all the kids of non-European descent in her class exhibit this trope.
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Looney Tunes: Giovanni Jones from Long-Haired Hare.
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The pilot for the Nick Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles features news anchor Carlos Chiang O'Brien Gambe.
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My-Otome, all over the place. Most characters who were previously in My-HiME have Japanese first names and European last names (for example, Natsuki Kuga becomes Natsuki Kruger). Then there's people like Erstin Ho and Sergei Wang. Then again, it's a far-future Lost Colony where the various cultures have presumably intermixed to great extent.
In the My-HiME manga, Alyssa Kuga has a Western first name and a Japanese surname.
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Lyrical Nanoha:
Vivio's name is most likely Belkan (out of universe, she's named after the Subaru Vivio). After being adopted by Nanoha, she gains her last name "Takamachi" (which is Japanese).
In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha INNOCENT, the Wolkenritter (who also have Belkan names) gain Hayate's last name Yagami (Japanese).
Reinforce Eins and Reinforce Zwei are named after an English word and a German number. And then Eins gains the last name Yagami in INNOCENT alongside the Wolkenritter, giving her a name made up of three languages.
Cinque, Nove, Dieci, and Wendi Nakajima all have Italian first names and a Japanese last name. Though -technically speaking- the entire family qualifies for the same reasons as Vivio.
The Numbers that didn't perform a Heel–Face Turn have Japanese first names and an Italian last name in INNOCENT.
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In the My-HiME manga, Alyssa Kuga has a Western first name and a Japanese surname.
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In Wasteful Days of High School Girls, Lily Someya's last name is Japanese, but her given name isn't. This implies that her father may have adopted his wife's family name.
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In Avenue Q, a character with the first name of "Christmas Eve" is Japanese. Her husband is also Jewish, though we don't know his surname or whether she took it.
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Borderlands 3 has one of the new Vault Hunters, Moze, a.k.a. Moserah Hayussinian Yan-Lun al-Amir Andreyevna, combining (in order) Hebrew, Armenian, Chinese, Arabic and Russian influences, all in one name.
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Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior has the title character.
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The Genesis Fleet has Lochan Nakamura as one of the main characters. Lochan is an Indian name, while Nakamura is a Japanese surname. The audiobook narrator makes him sound more Indian than Japanese. He does at one point meet a Nakamura from a Japanese planet and they speculate that they might be distant relatives.
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Used quite a bit in Dragon's Egg. There are a few regular-sounding names such as Jean Kelly Thomas and Carole Swenson, but then we have Pierre Carnot Niven, Cesar Ramirez Wong, Amalita Shakhashiri Drake, Seiko Kauffman Takahashi, and Abdul Nkoma Farouk.
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Blank Check with Griffin & David: In the Edward Scissorhands episode, Griffin Newman discusses being cast for the part of "Shalom Rodriguez" in a movie that was canceled several weeks before shooting began. He notes that the role could have gone to either a Latino or a Jew to make one half of the name a joke.
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Harry Potter:
Antonin Dolohov; "Antonín" (accent on the 'i') is Czech, but -ov surnames are only really found in Bulgaria and Russia. In fact there is a Russian officer named Dolohov in War and Peace. Also Gellert Grindelwald, whose first name is Hungarian, while the surname is German.
Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore (Albus being Latin; Percival being one the heroes of Chretien de Troyes's Grail romances, based on the Welsh hero Peredur; Wulfric being an old Anglo-Saxon name; and Brian being an Irish name; reflecting the many cultural groups that have played a role in British history.)
Hermione Granger also counts, because "Hermione" is Greek, while "Granger" is English.
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Cowboy Bebop:
Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV. She made it up herself because she thought it sounded cool. Her parents named her Francoise Appledelhi, which is French and (mangled) Turkish.note Her father's name, Appledelhi Siniz Hesap Lutfen, is a pun on "excuse me Check, Please!" in Turkish.
Spike Spiegel has a relatively new (mid-20th-century) American first name which is more often a nickname than a given name, and a German surname. He's from Mars and has a Jew 'fro, so his ancestry is anyone's guess.
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On 24, the name of an Asian-American employee at CTU (played by an actor whose name also fits the trope, James Hiroyuki Liaonote Anglo-Japanese-Chinese) is "Devon Rosenthal".
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Ernst Stavro Blofeld, archenemy of James Bond. Ernst and Blofeld are Germanic while Stavro is Greek; his backstory makes explicit mention of a Polish father and Greek mother.
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 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_46d48eba
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 James Bond
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_46d48eba
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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Sarilho: very common in the Meditan Empire, with characters named Mikhail Kirchhoff, Malik Ramirez or Maili Han.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_4b238117
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1.0
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_4b238117
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 Sarilho (Webcomic)
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_4b238117
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Trini Kwan has a forename of Spanish origin and a surname of Chinese originnote Her actress is Vietnamese-American but the name Kwan does have a Vietnamese variation that is spelled as "Quan". In the unaired pilot, the character was portrayed by an Afro-Latina actress and when she chose not to return for the series proper, the name was kept. The 2017 movie re-casts Trini as Latina but does not mention her last name.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_4be3aedd
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1.0
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_4be3aedd
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 Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_4be3aedd
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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Juan Epstein's full name ("Juan Luis Pedro Felipe de Juevas Epstein"), specifically the fact that it mixed a long list of Hispanic names, yet ended in a Jewish surname, was considered a point of humor in the first episode of Welcome Back, Kotter.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_4eaeb513
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1.0
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_4eaeb513
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 Welcome Back, Kotter
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_4eaeb513
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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In The Apocalypse According to Marie, Burgh Kassam has an Anglo-Saxon first name (probably inspired on Eric de Burgh, Chief of Staff in the old British India) and a Muslim nickname, even although he seems to be a Hindu. His similarly Indian friend Kyssa, on the other hand, has a more difficult name; it seems to be a variation As Long as It Sounds Foreign of the African name Kisa.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_56416898
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1.0
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_56416898
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 The Apocalypse According to Marie
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_56416898
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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Ingrid Hunnigan from the later Resident Evil installments has a German given name and Irish surname, and is herself Ambiguously Brown.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_57ad0c07
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1.0
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_57ad0c07
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 Resident Evil (Franchise)
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_57ad0c07
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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Metal Gear: McDonnell Miller's true first name is revealed in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker to be Kazuhira; he was born to an American father and Japanese mother.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_59151283
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1.0
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_59151283
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 Metal Gear (Video Game)
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_59151283
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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Ann Takamaki from Persona 5 has a Hebrew first name and a Finnish surname. While she’s a quarter American, she’s also said to have lived in Finland prior to the events of the game.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_5921531c
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 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_5921531c
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 Persona 5 (Video Game)
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_5921531c
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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Civilization: Beyond Earth has the leader of the Pan-Asian Cooperative named Daoming Sochua. Daoming is a Chinese give name, while Sochua is a Cambodian family name. Her biography states that her mother is Chinese and her father is Cambodian, explaining the use of the trope.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_5a160237
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 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_5a160237
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 Civilization: Beyond Earth (Video Game)
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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Claudine Saijo from Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight has a French given name and a Japanese family name, reflecting her French-Japanese heritage. The mobile game also introduces Lalafin Nonomiya, who's half-German, but unlike Claudine's name "Lalafin" isn't a real name in any language.
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 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_5a36f92f
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 Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_5a36f92f
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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Alex Kamal of The Expanse is from the Mariner Valley on Mars, settled by a mix of Chinese, East Indians, and Texans. He looks mostly Indian but speaks with a pronounced Texan drawl. There's also Admiral Augusto Nguyen. Augusto is a Spanish name, while Nguyen is a common Vietnamese surname (it's actually pronounced "Win" or "Wen").
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_5bb406f8
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1.0
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_5bb406f8
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_5bb406f8
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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Cave Story has Sue Sakamoto, whose brother Kazuma and mother Momorin have Japanese given names, though Sue is also a legitimately Japanese name that reads Soo-Eh.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_5e3832b5
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1.0
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_5e3832b5
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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Jem: Pizzazz's real name is Phyllis Gabor, which her last name is Hungarian and her first name is Greek, though father is most likely Hungarian. Also, Roxy's last name is Pellegrini, which is Italian.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_6274e926
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1.0
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_6274e926
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_6274e926
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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The Halo: Evolutions short story "The Mona Lisa" gives us Chinese/Hispanic Sergeant Zhao Heng Lopez, and Vietnamese/Italian Navy Corpsman Ngoc Benti.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_63398d01
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1.0
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_63398d01
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 Halo: Evolutions
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_63398d01
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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In .hack//G.U., online web show host "Salvador" Aihara's given name is actually Carlos. This is because, while fully ethnically Japanese, he was born and raised in Brazil.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_6418fc5
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 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_6418fc5
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_6418fc5
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! gives us Gladstone Katoa. First name English/leaning more towards Scottish nowadays, second name is Polynesian.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_677fd618
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1.0
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_677fd618
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 Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! (Video Game)
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_677fd618
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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From Bajor to the Black, Part II has two of them. Eleya's Starfleet Academy roommate is Jasmine Velasquez, a mix of Persian and Spanish (she's Ambiguously Brown and pretty clearly multiracial). Then we get to one of the admirals at graduation, one Daisuke Hussein (Japanese and Arabic).
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_68ced07c
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 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_68ced07c
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_68ced07c
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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This becomes more common in later Macross series. Examples include Isamu Dyson of Macross Plus and Hayate Immelman of Macross Delta.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_69085a0
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1.0
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_69085a0
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_69085a0
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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In Pacific Rim, Hannibal Chau named himself after "my favourite historical character and my second-favourite Szechuan restaurant in Brooklyn."
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 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_6ae6b4c7
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 Pacific Rim
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_6ae6b4c7
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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Mass Effect: Andromeda has Suvi Anwar, who is a Scottish woman with a Finnish first name and an Arabic last name. And also Liam Kosta, a seemingly African-British man whose first name is an abbreviated form of "William" often used in Ireland and the UK, while his surname could be Polish, Ukrainian, or Greek.
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1.0
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_6b711131
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 Mass Effect: Andromeda (Video Game)
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_6b711131
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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In a pre-release rag for Mortal Kombat 3, Ed Boon and John Tobias had stated that early in the development of the original game, Liu Kang was going to be named Miyamoto Yo Shin Soo (not "Yoshinsu," which would have at least matched up), which was apparently too much even for a series that would become known for its inability to tell Chinese and Japanese cultures apart from each other.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_6d10ab05
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 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_6d10ab05
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 Mortal Kombat 3 (Video Game)
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_6d10ab05
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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Altered Carbon: The protagonist is named Takeshi Kovacs. This is explained in-universe: his home planet was colonized mainly by people of Japanese and Slavic descent; his mother was the former, his father the latter.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_6ea7c33b
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1.0
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_6ea7c33b
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_6ea7c33b
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Multi-Ethnic Name
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_6eb4ca5c
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Jackie Chan Adventures: Aside from the title character himself (Though, "Jackie" is likely just a nickname, as with his real-life counterpart.), there's J-Team archnemesis Bartholomew Chang, a Taiwanese man with an English first name and a Chinese surname.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_6eb4ca5c
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 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_6eb4ca5c
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 Jackie Chan Adventures
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_6eb4ca5c
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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In Weak Hero, all of the characters have Western first names (Ben, Alex, Gerard, Donald) combined with a Korean surname (Park, Go, Jin, Na). This seems to be a style choice, as none of the characters (besides maybe Ben) are implied to be anything besides full Korean.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_6f73a6e9
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 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_6f73a6e9
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_6f73a6e9
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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The Urbz has Mazuiko Jackson, one of the inhabitants of Neon East and the owner of the district's sushi bar. Neon East is inspired by the Anime subculture, and her name is clearly meant to evoke that. Mazuiko herself is implied to be half-Japanese, if her appearance is anything to go by.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_6f77e053
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 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_6f77e053
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_6f77e053
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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Used liberally throughout The Five Star Stories due to Mamoru Nagano's love of Culture Chop Suey.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_70a86caa
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1.0
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_70a86caa
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 The Five Star Stories (Manga)
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_70a86caa
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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Yuri Himemiya from Prince of Stride Alternative, who may not seem to be this trope at first since he has a kanji name, but his hair gives it away (although not in a manner seen in real life) - he's half Russian, half Japanese.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_70d202dd
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 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_70d202dd
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 Prince of Stride (Visual Novel)
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_70d202dd
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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Kimiko "Kim" Ross of Dresden Codak was born Kimiko Kusanagi, but changed her surname to her mother's after she died and her dad vanished from her life. She usually just goes by "Kim" since she's uncomfortable with her Japanese heritage, only to find out her father was actually Korean and born Kim Young-Soo, meaning she's unintentionally been using his real name as her own.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_72508928
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 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_72508928
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_72508928
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc has Leon Kuwata. His name was likely chosen because, when written upside down like his victim did in her Dying Clue, it looks like "11037."
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_73383fee
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1.0
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_73383fee
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 Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc (Visual Novel)
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_73383fee
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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Dr. Julian Bashir in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; presented as very pukka British, but with an Arabic name.... and his parents, when they appear in the show, come over as old-time cockney Jews of the Rabbi Lionel Blue variety, his father speaking like a true Yiddisher mensch from Stepney or Bow or one of the lower-rent streets on the monopoly board.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_73d7930f
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_73d7930f
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Multi-Ethnic Name
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_746814ae
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In Arthur, Binky's Chinese-born adopted sister is named Mei Lin Barnes.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_746814ae
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1.0
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_746814ae
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 Arthur
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_746814ae
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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X-Men character Julio Richter – he's from Mexico and his family appears to be entirely Hispanic, but his surname is German in origin.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_75622e41
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1.0
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_75622e41
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 X-Men (Franchise)
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_75622e41
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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Lars Rodriguez from Rocket Power has a Scandinavian given name despite both of his parents being Latino.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_757cf125
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 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_757cf125
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_757cf125
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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Steven Universe:
Connie Maheswaran. Her surname is Tamil and means "Lord of the Universe". However, fans have speculated that "Connie" is an Anglicised version of the Hindi name Kahaani. Her Father has canonically been given the first name Doug, which is a more clearcut case.
There's also Laramie (Lars) Barriga, whose given name is French and surname is Spanish (his father is Filipino, which has a history of colonization by the Spanish).
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_7832b74c
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 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_7832b74c
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_7832b74c
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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Common in Bubblegum Crisis due to Megatokyo being a multicultural futuristic city. Among them are Priss (short for Priscilla) Asagiri, Linna Yamazaki and Nene Romanova.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_791f9a4a
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1.0
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_791f9a4a
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_791f9a4a
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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Ambassador Donnel Udina from Mass Effect is a man of African descent with an Irish first name and a Russian surname (and female at that). This is explicitly due to cultural intermingling.
Lieutenant Kaidan Alenko also counts. His surname is Ukrainian, while his given name seems to be either of Japanese or Celtic originsnote the former referring to a genre of Edo era ghost stories rather than a proper name, the latter being a possible variation on "Caden". And he was born and raised in Vancouver.
The Player Character can also be this, since while their surname is always Shepard their give name (and appearance) is decided by the player. The default names are John for a male Shepard and Jane for a female, but go to any site where people post about their custom Shepards and you'll see many examples of this.
Mass Effect: Andromeda has Suvi Anwar, who is a Scottish woman with a Finnish first name and an Arabic last name. And also Liam Kosta, a seemingly African-British man whose first name is an abbreviated form of "William" often used in Ireland and the UK, while his surname could be Polish, Ukrainian, or Greek.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_7988cb68
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 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_7988cb68
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_7988cb68
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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Isabella Garcia-Shapiro from Phineas and Ferb. Appropriately enough, her mother seems to be an affectionate blend of Yiddish and Hispanic stereotypes. There's also one-shot character Paolo Vanderbeek from "Live and Let Drive", an Italian-Scottish-Swiss-Dutch Grand-Prix legend.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_7c038c18
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 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_7c038c18
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_7c038c18
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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Destiny 2 has Suraya Hawthorne, who has an Afghan first name and Anglo-American surname. Her Number Two, Devrim Kay, has a Turkish first name and a Celtic surname.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_7c537173
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1.0
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_7c537173
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 Destiny 2 (Video Game)
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_7c537173
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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In Escape from Monkey Island, Guybrush has a run-in with the pirate-hating, heavily-armed Admiral Ricardo Luigi Pierre M'Bengu Chang Nehru O'Hara Casaba III (Spanish, Italian, French, African, Chinese, Indian, Irish, and again Spanish).
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_7cf1b706
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 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_7cf1b706
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 Escape from Monkey Island (Video Game)
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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Hands Held in the Snow: Emi L'Hime's name is, um, linguistically interesting, to say the least.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_7db16a43
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1.0
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_7db16a43
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In Ranma Saotome, Chi Master, Ranma's guru is named Parvati Chun, a name that reflects her Indo-Chinese heritage.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_7dcce034
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 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_7dcce034
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_7dcce034
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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Clerks gives us a subtler example in Dante Hicks. Word of God states that he is half-Irish, half-Italian.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_7de22ab8
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1.0
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_7de22ab8
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_7de22ab8
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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The The Sims 2 random character generator is notorious for producing townies with names like Juan McCullough or Kiyoshi Centowski (when the names it comes up with aren't just plain bizarre, like the infamous Goopy GilsCarbo) and having no relation whatsoever between looks and the ethnic background of a Sim's name. For example, the aforementioned Kiyoshi is a Dark-Skinned Blond with blue eyes.
Sports games which used a name generator from in-game players and mixed and matched random fore- and surnames also count. An example from MVP Baseball 2003: "Sun-Woo Knoblauch".
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_7f640c58
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1.0
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_7f640c58
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_7f640c58
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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Star Trek:
The original pitch for the show included a young navigator named Lt. José Ortegas; by the time the pilot episode The Cage was filmed, he had become Lt. Tyler. However, supplemental material still universally gives him the full name "José Tyler".
Hikaru Sulu has a Japanese first name, but the Japanese language doesn't even have an "L" as his surname does. The character was supposed to be generically "pan-Asian" at first and was named after the Sulu Sea – he eventually acquired his Japanese first name due to being played by a Japanese-American actor.
Likely unintentional, but Khan Noonien Singh's name mixes an Islamic name of Central Asian origin (Khan) and a Sikh name of Punjabi origin (Singh). Both names are common in India, but not generally among the same people (especially since they're both surnames, meaning that "Khan Singh" sounds kind of like "Smith Jones," or—translating the names—"King Lyons").
While it wasn't her original name, after she got married, Keiko O'Brien definitely counts. Likewise her son, Kirayoshi O'Brien, actually combines three: his Irish father's surname of O'Brien, and a first name which combines both Japanese (-yoshi) from his mother's side and the Bajoran (Kira-) family name of the alien surrogate who carried him to term (which is traditionally put first anyway, giving him two family names, both Kira and O'Brien).
Lieutenant Daniel Kwan (Hebrew, Korean), a half-human, half-Napean who worked at Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards
Dr. Julian Bashir in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; presented as very pukka British, but with an Arabic name.... and his parents, when they appear in the show, come over as old-time cockney Jews of the Rabbi Lionel Blue variety, his father speaking like a true Yiddisher mensch from Stepney or Bow or one of the lower-rent streets on the monopoly board.
Then there's B'Elanna Torres, named by her Klingon mother but keeping her human father's last name. Her father John Torres also qualifies, given his English first name and Hispanic surname, as do his brother Carl and the brother's children Michael, Dean, and Elizabeth. According to a non-canon novel, he lives in Mexico.
B'Elanna and her husband, Tom Paris, have a daughter—Miral Parisnote Or at least that's what she's called in the alternate future. Miral after B'Elanna's Klingon mother, and Paris being her human father's surname. While B'Elanna was pregnant, people also suggested Taya, which is a Native American name, and Floxia, which is a Talaxian name, both of which would contrast with Paris, a French surname.
And Harry Kim. English first name, Korean surname.
When Samantha Wildman was pregnant, she thought of naming the baby Greskrendtregk after her alien father or Benaren after another alien's father (she thought the baby was going to be a boy), in contrast to her surname Wildman. Double-subverted— the baby ended up being a girl, so she got a different name, but her name was Naomi, which is a Jewish name and "Wildman" is an Anglo-Saxon name.
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Ki Oshiro of General Protection Fault, the result of her Chinese mother winning a bet against Ki's Japanese father, and getting to name her.
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Most Japanese characters in Rose Guns Days adopt Western given names, apparently to forget about the war and start their lives anew, since the story takes place in an Alternate Universe 1947 where Japan fell victim to a natural disaster and was virtually repopulated by Westerners who tried to help rebuilding the country.
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Theo Himezuka from Midnight Occult Civil Servants, who is half-British and was raised outside Japan.
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In Kiniro Mosaic, there is the half-Japanese, half English Karen Kujou. The series also discussed another form of this trope—that of the name was deliberately chosen so that it taken as completely different names in different languages. Karen is an example of this trope; the English use of this name has Armenian roots, while the Japanese use of the same name is a Chinese loanword, meaning "adorable." (Yes, the "Karen" in Zettai Karen Children (localized as Psychic Squad).
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In Alien in a Small Town, this applies to at least half the human cast. Indira and Jawarhalal Fenstermacher, Aleksei Callahan, Adah Chan, Julius Xaioming, and on and on. In the case of the world at large, this is just a standard future melting pot. In the case of the otherwise insular Mennonites, this is explained by their people having been displaced by invading soldiers generations earlier. When the Amish and Mennonites came home after the war, others who blamed technology for the war came with them.
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One episode of 30 Rock featured a news anchor named Carmen Chao. It was a running joke that no one could figure out her ethnicity.
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This is fairly common in Gundam works. Some notable examples are the original Mobile Suit Gundam's Ryu Jose (Japanese and Spanish, black Argentinian) and Anavel Gato (Hebrew & Spanish, born in a space colony) of Mobile Suit Gundam 0083 fame.
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Light Yagami of Death Note. Oddly, 'Light' is written with the kanji for 'Moon', because one of the rare nanorinote specific readings used only in names for 「月」 is "Raito". Which is the closest way the Japanese can render the word "Light".
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Melchizedek Okabe from The Red and the Rest has a Jewish-Japanese name, with hints that his parents were strict converts. Lampshaded in the beginning with Smith Cavendish Geier, a first-generation German-American. Neither of them fit in very well with their chosen professions.
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Pierre Chang on Lost, who has the same combination of French first name and Chinese last name as his actor, François Chau.
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Pani Poni Dash!: Rebecca Miyamoto, an 11-year-old with a doctorate from MIT.
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The Loud House has:
Ronalda "Ronnie" Anne Santiago, who is Latina. Scottish first name, French middle name, and Spanish surname.
Stella Zhau— Latin first name, Filipino last name.
The entire Chang family counts. Their surname is Chinese, while the father Stanley has an English name, the mother Becca has a Greek name, the first daughter Sidney (better known as Sid) has another English name, and the second daughter Adelaide has a French name.
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Doing It Right This Time makes Canon Immigrant Mari Makinami's full name Marietta Illustrious Makinami, reflecting the fact she's biracial. She doesn't like talking about how she got her middle name.
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An omnipresent trope in BattleTech, due to increasing Culture Chop Suey as humanity settles a local area of our Galaxy and empires rise, wane and fall over the many centuries. One short story set in The 'Verse has a red-haired, green-eyed character go undercover as "Rabbi Martinez", which is apparently a completely unremarkable juxtaposition.
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Agent Graham Tanaka on Dollhouse, played by Mark Sheppard. The part was originally written with an Asian actor in mind, and Sheppard wanted to keep the name. The Word of God explanation is that he took the name of his stepfather.
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Grace Nakamura in Gabriel Knight. Her parents were Japanese, but they emigrated to the United States before she was born.
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Ragnar McRyan in Dragon Quest IV. He's Scottish. Ragnar is a Scandinavian name.
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Anthy Himemiya from Revolutionary Girl Utena; her given name is derived from a Greek word and her family name is Japanese. Having this kind of name adds more to the confusion over what her exact ethnicity is.
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Jinzō Konchū Kabuto Borg VxV:
Loid Andō has an English given name and a Japanese surname.
Linlin Ryūshō has a Chinese given name and a Japanese surname.
Jan-Michael MacLachlan has a Dutch-English compound given name and an anglicized Scottish Gaelic surname.
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Daria Morgendorffer, the titular protagonist of Daria, combining a Russian first name (itself derived from the Persian "Darius") with a last name that's almost stereotypically German.
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In Case Closed, Shin'ichi Kudo's alias Conan Edogawa is a Line-of-Sight Name after mystery writers Arthur Conan Doyle (English) and Ranpo Edogawanote A pen name of Taro Hirai, chosen to honor no one else than Edgar Allan Poe. (Japanese). His excuse when asked about his peculiar name is "My parents are really big Sherlock Holmes fans." (Note that it's possible to write 'Konan' in kanji, though he uses katakana.)
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In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha INNOCENT, the Wolkenritter (who also have Belkan names) gain Hayate's last name Yagami (Japanese).
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Peggy Matsuyama and Yayoi Ulshade in the Super Sentai franchise.
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The Oscar gives us Hymie Kelly, who is half-Jewish, half-Irish (and played by the Italian-American Tony Bennett in his only feature film role).
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The Star Trek: New Frontier series had a minor character, Romeo Takahashi, who was a natural blond and of Japanese descent.
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Rugrats has Kimi Finster. Her first name is Japanese, and her last name (which was given to her when her mother married Chas) is German.
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Laverne & Shirley has Laverne DeFazio. French first name, Italian surname.
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Futurama:
Bender Bending Rodriguez' surname makes sense as he's "hecho en Mexico," whereas his first name is the English description of his primary function and his middle name, again in English, serves as his model designation (he's a "bending unit") and a Literal Metaphor Is My Middle Name run through the Department of Redundancy Department. The English also makes sense as he was presumably intended for market in the U.S.
Father Changstein el-Gamal.
Amy Wong, whose given and family names are, respectively, French and Chinese in origin.
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Most of the characters in Scarlet Nexus have a Japanese first name and an English surname, resulting in names like Kagero Donne, Kyoka Eden, Arashi Spring and Shiden Ritter.
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Zaboo in The Guild. Real name: Sujan Goldberg. As he explains to anyone who asks, he's a "hinjew".
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Astral Chain features a wide variety of these due to humanity being forced into a massive artificial island as a result of a worldwide apocalypse. To start, the protagonist's (who is player-named) sibling is named Akira Howard (Japanese and Norse).
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The above Amamiya name has its origin in Code Vein's sister series, God Eater. While Tsubaki is a proper Japanese name, Lindow definitely isn't.
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Rebuild of Evangelion adds Mari Illustrious Makinami. Like Zeppelin, Illustrious has the same problem. In these movies, Asuka's last name is changed to Shikinami but she keeps the Langley.
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Rainbows End has Robert Gu (Sr. and Jr.), who reflects the melting pot nature of modern (and near-future) America. The Indian national named Albert Vaz, on the other hand, suggests that the rest of the world is becoming more of a melting pot as well.
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Questionable Content: Sven Bianchi. His last name comes from his Italian-American dad, whereas his Swedish-American mother insisted she could choose his first name on her own since she gave birth to him.
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One of the main characters in the Atari Force mini-comics series (produced by DC Comics) is the Chinese-Irish security chief, Li San O'Rourke.
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Code Vein gives us Louis Amamiya and his sister Karen Amamiya. Like Karen/Caren below, Karen is a legitimate Japanese name, but Louis is a French name (even pronounced Lew-ee).
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Zigzagged with Jolyne, Jotaro's American daughter who has her Japanese father's surname Kujo, but official romanization Westernizes it, in her case, as "Cujoh". Subverted with Jotaro's mother, Holly Kujo (née Joestar). Finally, played straight with the Zeppeli clan, as they are Italians with English (William) or Latin names (Caesarnote The Italian form would be Cesare).
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Temeraire: The dragon entrepreneur John Wampanoag was hatched to the Wampanoag Native American tribe but has a European first name. A short story from his perspective reveals that he Invoked this, asking for a name that would be easy to use in business with the American colonies.
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The eponymous hero of the Takeshi Kovacs series. The series takes place 500 years into the future and he originates on a planet colonized by Japanese and Slavs. His mother was Japanese, his father Russian, and he has a stereotypically Hungarian last name.
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Peanuts had José Peterson, a friend of Peppermint Patty, briefly in the 1960s. At one point Patty mentions that she likes his mom's Swedish meatball tacos.
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Eugene and Phoebe Wu of FoxTrot.
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1.0
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In Bumped, there are a lot of these. Two such characters are Zen Chen-Chavez and Shoko Weiss.
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1.0
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_b52b40a2
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Singin' in the Rain has Lina Lamont. Swedish first name, French last name.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_b5929672
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1.0
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_b5929672
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Moshi Monsters has Tamara Tesla. Her first name is Hebrew and her last name, which comes from Nikola Tesla, is Serbian.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_b6b6098
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1.0
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_b6b6098
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The 2012 reboot of Syndicate has Agent Tatsuo Hamilton, of the Aspari Corporation. Additionally, most of the named Aspari citizens and employees have English given names and Chinese surnames (Gary Chang, etc.).
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_b7e2bb69
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A minor character in the web-novel Domina is named Zusa Pham, which is Yiddish/Vietnamese. Her friend Jelena Aune has a Serbian given name, and her last name is either a Finnish given name or an obsolete French unit of measure.
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In Sakura Wars, several of the characters have mixed origins, with a couple of them having names reflecting that, namely Maria Tachibana (Russian/Japanese) and Orihime Soletta (Italian/Japanese).
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Mateo Liwanag on Superstore, whose full name gives him away obviously as Filipino (first name Spanish-Catholic, last name Tagalog).
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1.0
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_bf949aad
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The full name of Team Fortress 2's Demoman is Tavish Finnegan DeGroot. While Tavish is indeed a Scottish name, Finnegan is Irish and DeGroot is Dutch.
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Bernardo O'Reilly in The Magnificent Seven, "Irish on one side, Mexican on the other, and me in the middle."
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1.0
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 The Magnificent Seven (1960)
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Juan Lebedev in Deus Ex. According to the Deus Ex Bible, at one point in the series' universe the Russian Mafia and the Mexican drug cartels formed a powerful alliance that rivalled each of their countries' respective governments, which may explain his heritage.
His full name is Juan Ivanovich Lebedev. Given his patronymic, we can surmise that his father's name was Ivan Lebedev. Since Juan is the Spanish equivalent of Ivan, it's possible he was named after his father, but with a nod to his Latin American heritage.
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Robin Series: The Rising Sun Archer's name is Lisa Yurigama.
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One storyline of Daredevil involved a minor criminal by the name of Ivan Murphy.note Although "Ivan" is, if not exactly common, prevalent enough to be considered unremarkable in Ireland
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Sharin Foo of The Raveonettes: 'Sharin' is a Scandinavian spelling of 'Sharon', typically an English name but originally Hebrew, and 'Foo' is Chinese - Sharin's father is Sino-Danish musician Kim Tai-Foo, and her grandfather was from a tiny village in China.
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Oren Pierre Alfonso in Kamen Rider Gaim. Explained in-series that his birth name was Gennosuke Oren, but he changed it after taking French citizenship.
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One of the recurring secondary characters in Kuromukuro was named José Carlos Takasuka, though, while being Japanese-Spanish, he lived in Japan all his life and was entirely Japanese culturally.
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid has Greg's background classmate Jeffrey (English) Chang (Chinese).
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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Love Momozono/Cure Peach from Fresh Pretty Cure! Her grandfather gave her the name because he wanted her to be full of love... but since people would recognize the name 'Love' more than 'Ai', he insisted that her name be in English.
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_d2c855fd
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As Battle Angel Alita progressed, especially into the "Mars Chronicle", the Martian names started to get a more noticeable Japano-Germanic bend, like, for example, Princess Kagura Dornburg and her uncle and political rival Marquis Maruki Baumburg. An interesting case would be Alita/Yoko's Childhood Friend and later archnemesis, Erika Wald, AKA Frau X, as "Erika", through the sheer coincidence, just happens to be both a German and Japanese female given name.
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In the Wild Cards series, there's the Indio-Irish Elephant Girl, whose real name is Rhada O'Reilly.
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Kudryavka Noumi from Little Busters!, who is three-quarters Russian and one quarter Japanese.
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_d67b8fb8
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Nigel Uno aka Numbuh One from Codename: Kids Next Door (who is presumably British) has a British first name but a Spanish last name, though admittedly this is Just for Pun.
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The Evil Within 2 has Yukiko Hoffman.
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 The Evil Within 2 (Video Game)
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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Ensemble Stars! has half-Middle Eastern Otogari Adonis and apparently fully Japanese Tsukinaga Leo. Could also be the case with Leo's sister, whose name is officially Ruka but was probably intended to be Luka.
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The City Wok in South Park is owned by Tuong Lu Kim, whose name is Vietnamese-Chinese-Korean. However, it is later revealed that he is actually one of the personalities of the insane Dr. Janus.
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In Mork & Mindy, when the titular characters get married, he takes her last name and becomes Mork McConnell, which is an alien first name and an Earth surname. When they have a son, they name him Mearth, which is a blend of his parents' first initial, plus "Earth" (which wasn't a name to begin with).
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From Prince Roger: Prince Roger Ramius Sergei Alexander Chiang MacClintock. Being several centuries in the audience's future, there has been a lot of blending of cultures, making the titular prince's full name nothing particularly special in and of itself.
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In El Tigre, Manny has a very long name, each part being based on a member of the show's staff. As one could guess, most of the names are Spanish... Except for O'Brien. Downplayed, though, since that's the only part of his name that counts (again, the rest of his name is Spanish), and because he's rarely called by his full name (only by his dad when he's mad at Manny).
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Endemic in Michiko & Hatchin. The show has a Latin American setting and uses pseudo-Spanish/Portuguese surnames, but everyone still has Japanese first names. The title characters, Hana Morenos and Michiko Malandro, are the most obvious examples.
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In Undead Friend, one of the main characters is of mixed ethnicity and is named Wylie Kurosawa.
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Ciaphas Cain had a fencing instructor in school named Miyamoto de Bergerac.
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In Firefly, it was mentioned in the commentary for "Shindig" that they gave Asian surnames to characters played by white actors as an indication of Western and Chinese cultural intermingling.
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Lilo & Stitch franchise: Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel has a French given name and a German (or at least German-sounding) surname.
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BattleTech: Given the setting, this trope is in full effect.
Straight examples: Sumire Meyer (Japanese first name, German family name), Yang Virtanen (Chinese first name, Finnish family name), Raju Montgomery (Hindi first name, Scottish family name), Kamea Arano (Hawaiian first name, Spanish family name), Tamati Arano (Maori first name, Spanish family name), Reynauld Yamaguchi (French first name, Japanese family name.)
Downplayed examples note  Technically fit the trope, but are not unusual enough to be eye-catching: Darius Oliveira (Persian first name, Portuguese family name), Victoria Espinosa (Latin first name, Spanish family name).
On top of this, the game has a wide-reaching list of names for random characters, and picks and mixes from those lists with gleeful abandon, landing with both feet in this trope more often than not.
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Phoebe from Hey Arnold! has a first name that is American and the last name Heyerdahl, which is Norwegian. Her last name is odd, though, considering that she is supposed to be half-Japanese.
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Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues:
Ciro Alvarado Gardner, who takes his English surname from his American father, and his first and middle names from his Mexican mother.
Jemimah Chen. Her first name is of bibical Hebrew origins, while her surname is Chinese. She explains that it's because her Chinese father picked her first name out of a book.
Mirielle Bogdan, with her first name being French and her surname being Slavic. This is due to her adopted mother being French, and picking her first name because of its meaning ("miracle").
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Family Guy: When Peter finds out he's part black and changes his name, Chris decides to call himself Mobutu O'Malley.
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Soranica Ele gives us Zenobia Adelaide Albert Axelrod and Kaguya Lolotte Omi de la Patelliere.
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Appears in several places in Transmetropolitan - most prominently in Spider's assistant, Yelena Rossini.
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The Evil Within has your detective partner Joseph Oda, which is explained as him being a Canadian of Japanese descent.
The Evil Within 2 has Yukiko Hoffman.
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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Street Fighter:
Played straight with the Matsuda siblings, Laura and Sean. Grandfather and Father are Japanese and their mother is Afro-Brazilian.
Edmond Honda; there's no official explanation but you're left to wonder if he has English roots a few generations back.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_ef661e97
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Breaking Bad has a minor character named Emilio Koyama, whose name indicates that he's half-Mexican and half-Japanese respectively.
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 Breaking Bad
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Paxton Hall-Yoshida of Never Have I Ever is fittingly half-Caucasian and half-Japanese. As he is white-passing, he responds with "What did you think Yoshida is?" when his friend expresses surprise at his Japanese heritage.
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Servamp has Licht Jekylland Todoroki. The last name is Japanese, the other two aren't even real names. Though it is possible that "Licht" is derived from German and Jekylland is English. Although Jekylland is clearly for Theme Naming with his Servamp Lawless/(Hyde).
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In GJ-bu, there's the Canadian Kirara Bernstein.
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1.0
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Lilly Satou from Katawa Shoujo, who is half Japanese and half Scottish. Her sister Akira's name seems fully Japanese at first glance, but the name "Akira" is also a legitimate Scottish name.
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This happens sometimes on Babylon 5, like ISN reporter Derek Mobotabwe, who is a white guy. Probably because of cultural intermingling, like the Firefly example.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_f74b5f80
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 Babylon 5
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_f74b5f80
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Multi-Ethnic Name
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_f9d47c67
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Miles Morales, who has a Black father and a Latina mother.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_f9d47c67
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1.0
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_f9d47c67
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 Miles Morales (Comic Book)
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_f9d47c67
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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In Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, Clispaeth, the resident Crystal Dragon Jesus was once a soldier by the name of Crispus Ryuji Attucks.
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_fa884541
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1.0
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_fa884541
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 Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden (Video Game)
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_fa884541
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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The Wrong Reflection has a brief mention of a Terran Empire admiral named Dzhabrail Mahadeo (Chechen and Hindi).
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 The Wrong Reflection (Fanfic)
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_fd0da518
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Multi-Ethnic Name
 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_fdc66d32
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Kamen Rider Double had guest characters named Lily and Frank Shirogane.
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1.0
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 Kamen Rider Double
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Multi-Ethnic Name / int_fdc66d32
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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Dharma Finkelstein from Dharma & Greg. As she put it, her father is Jewish but wanted to be the Dalai Lama.
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 Multi-Ethnic Name / int_ff4e1b34
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 Dirk Pitt Adventures / int_5c4e428e
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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Multi-Ethnic Name
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 A Summer's End — Hong Kong, 1986 (Visual Novel) / int_5c4e428e
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 Rose Guns Days (Visual Novel) / int_e57c666e
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 SHIMMER (Wrestling) / int_e57c666e
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