User blog comment:Matt-256/Overuse of American names/@comment-923138-20101030180509

Great post, Matt. Occasionally though I wonder more not just about the mostly American-ness of most of the names, but the fact that most of them are easily ones we see quite commonly around our own time. It's 500 years in the future!, about the only exotic name I've heard yet is "Cortana!" (Over-simplifying it, i know, but you see my point.)

Of course it'll be insanely difficult to predict what sort names we'd use in the future, along with cultural differentiations and blending like you mention here, and we all hate names like "ZARDOZ". Looking at it from the other end of the spectrum, what exotic or foreign should we NEVER use?