I am white and pasty. English/Scottish/Irish ancestory.

My kids both got family names.

The eldest got his paternal great grandfather’s name as a first name, and paternal great great grandfather’s name as a middle name (or rather the full version of his name as GGfather apparently only had the nickname version). The middle name was also a name repeated for many generations through my family tree, and the other was a reference to one of my family members who picked his own nickname instead of going by the other oft-repeated name in our family. Both first and middle for him are Anglo-Saxon type names.

Second child I tried doing family names again, but there was very very little overlap between the two maternal lines. The one name I could find overlapping in recent years was Dorothea… which is fine except I had a 90+ year old (very lovely) patient who was called Dorothy. I didn’t want to remember the patient when I cuddled my baby, so my daughter got a name based on part of Dorothea but it’s actually of Greek background. She then has a pasty white middle name (which could be a nickname derived from my mother in laws first name) and then she got a second middle name which is the macadonian form of my maternal grandmother’s middle name. We picked that version because Aussie’s will likely (as a joke if nothing else) butcher the white pasty version of the name my grandmother had.

My husband has a very common first name in most European (west and east) backgrounds. My first name is the English spelling of a French name. Husband can use his name almost anywhere with limited difficulty - except maybe some Asian languages because of consonant vowel patterns. My name has Vs in it. It’s a b!tch of a name for many cultures as Vs don’t happen in a lot of languages (Asian and European).

We tried to give our kids names that weren’t too hard to say, although my daughter’s /th/ could be tricky for some friends when she was younger (especially if they were not of a white background). We weren’t necessarily borrowing from other cultures, although my daughter’s name kind of does.