Names that are awesome from different cultures

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Do you like any names that you can't use for yourself/kids because they're from a different culture and would sound weird/pretentious on you/your kid?

I like:

Bidisha
Amadou
Alazar
Aisha
Mercedes (I could call a kid that, but it would sound trashy)
Haruka
Rhodri
Ingrid
Reza
Marta actually spelt as Marta (Marfffffa's not as cool).

I don't have any kids and I never really think about other names on myself, but I've recently taken a liking of the name "Yasuki", a Japanese name for males. I like many a Japanese name... especially those for males (Taro, Jiro, Ichiro, Haruki, Hikaru, etc.) I like the Japanese names Yuko, Yuki, Yumi, and Reiko--among others--for females.
I don't think I would give my kid a Japanese name unless he/she were half-Japanese.

Olga
Ravi
Nerinder
Pardeek
Olivia
Juan
Fernando
Hung
Yan
Xeno
Rasa

Japanese names tend to be awesome.

I don't know if it is a name from any culture, but it sounds like it it:

Nali (na-lee) would be soooo pretty. And I know that is my WP FB name, but it's not my real name so it's ok.

I love the fact in English speaking countries you can give your baby a name which you can make up totally on your own Someone from I think Sweden, once asked on the board about the name from her country, Melina and how the WPers liked it - well, in my country we do have this word but it means "drinking den" The names Olga and Marta you mentioned are commonly given in Poland. Marta is very common, Olga is quite common but not trite.

For some reason I like the name Helmut.

I used to love Hebrew names. This was in my super-obsession with Judaism though.

Girls: Chana, Leah (pronounced LAY-ah not LEE-ah), Rivkah, Avigayil, Sora, Miriam, Aliyah
Boys: Yitzchak, Ya'akov, Yermiyahu, Yechezkiel, Eliyahu, Moshe

Maxim and Raphael. I'm sure there are others I can't remember. I really like Maxim though. I'm not even sure if it's foreign or not. But I know a Russian guy named Maxim.
Edit: I remembered some. I like Klaus and Sander and Albi (it's Albrecht but it isn't very sexy unless it's shortened to Albi. ).

I love that name, along with several other Persian names like Iman, Kourosh, Nima, Azar, Fakhri, Sami, and Mahtab.
I need to get some Persian cats to justify using them.

Alexandria, Antje, Astrid, Dafydd, Diego, Ibrahim, Jagdeep, Lakshmi, Ndebele, Qiang, Vicente, Xavier, Zakera, Zlata

that's all i could think of off the top of my head. there are lots more.

Dutch: Jeroen for a boy. Looks and sounds "right".
For a girl, I have no idea... Alexandria, possibly.

I love european names. Swedish especially.

My top boys names iclude: Trygv, Orpheus, Ludwig, Wolfgang, Fox
My top girls names: Solvejg, Engelbethina, Turig, Leisel.

Persian stuff is awesome.

I've just realised that Reza means contentment. All the Rezas I've known have been unhappy.

I like Karuna.

means compassion in sanskrit and ive been told it means thorns in lithuanian.

tariq
rayan
ingrid
marianthe
jean- paul
lane
miriam
mariko
minoru
mamoru