User blog comment:Matt-256/Overuse of American names/@comment-100716-20101030184915

IMO, Bungie uses the names because of they have English as a first language.

For instance, my great-grandmother who can hardly speak English calls me Giammi, which is my name in Italian, but my grandparents who speak English fluently call me James. It all depends on the language, and I'm sure if Bungie employees spoke a different language, we'd be saying the same names, only in that language.