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Suggestions? As you may have read, my top consideration is Hazel with a Spanish pronunciation (rhymes with gazelle). Our home is bilingual and our schools are full of Hispanic children with clearly Hispanic names, but honestly and sadly, there is still a good deal of racial prejudice among the children. Should I give my genetically "white" children ethic names just because I like the sound of them? On the flip side, one of my many goals is to raise children who can identify and resist such ethnocentricity. They'll become comfortable with dealing with prejudice living in the bible belt and conceived using a known French sperm donor whom we've arranged to stay in contact with. Maybe Zahara and Hazel (again rhymes with gazelle) would be just the pair to pull this off in contrast to Sophia and Lydia, for example. Phonetically, I like vowels, z,v,j,h,& l, and names that stress the second or third syllable. Thanks so much.