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I agree with Elaina, but also want to say that some people may have "several names".
Like, "Johan Cruyff" whose 'actual' name is Hendrik Johannes Cruijff.
In a DVD about him, when he talks about his son "Jordi Cruyff", they asked him, when naming the baby, if it was "Jorge"... to which he responded that "it was not 'Jorge', but 'Jordi'. That in itself could be an assertion of freedom of election, and also using a language as a means of vindication...
My Catalan friends used to call me "Pau" instead of "Pablo", and I felt at ease with that, but again that's a personal choice...
Proper names should stay in their original form, even if an Italian name like the Nobel Price "Dario Fo" (which is pronounced in Italian with stress in the first syllable, "DárioFó") is said in Spanish as "Darío Fó"... but those are just details...
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