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Ninelle would be an improvement! But it also looks more fake than Ninel, so I'd have to avoid them both.

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Just for interest: I did know its origin, and it always reminds me of a particularly nasty South African politician, a white Nationalist right-winger with a short-man complex and limited intelligence. Harsh, but true! He was our Foreign Minister, I think, back in the 1950s and/or our representative at the United Nations. This meant that he had to live, with his family, in New York City where his very young son went to school and attracted attention from his teachers, who finally called the parents in. It seems that the boy had looked round the classroom, noticed that not all the pupils were white like him, deduced from his experience in South Africa that, since black people were only to be found doing menial, unskilled jobs, therefore these children must be in the classroom for that very reason. And he started giving them orders: fetch my book, pick up the pencil I've dropped, dust my table ... you get the picture. I've no idea how the school and the parents solved the problem! But the point of contact with your post is that the Minister's son was named Izan. On the Ninel principle. Pretty unpleasant, you'll agree. In mitigation, I've never heard of anyone else doing that.