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I wouldn't like to generalise, but as a child we had neighbours who were (man) Polish and (wife) Scottish. They had two children, a boy and a girl. The boy was named Roderick and the girl was named Wanda. So they each got the language of the parent of opposite gender to themselves. My parents also thought, without asking them if they were right, that perhaps they guessed that the daughter would probably marry and change her surname, so her first name needed to be Polish, but the son would always keep his own Polish surname and therefore got an English fn with Scottish connections so both parents were honoured.