Most studies to date have focused on Britain and the USA, but information is slowly accumulating about naming habits in other countries, and ethnic differences are now being more seriously addressed. A Significant proportion of the people of Britain and the USA have non-English-speaking backgrounds, and the naming fashions of their original countries are often included in modern name surveys. A dictionary of first names (1990), by Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges, provides supplements on the common name of the Arab world and the subcontinent of India. They are names about which most white Anglo-saxons have no clear intuitions, even to the extent of recognizing wheter they belong to boy or Khalid ( ‘eternal’),Mahmud (‘praiseworthy’), and Mansur (‘victerious’);Indian names such as Rivi (‘sun’), Rame (‘pleasing’),Vasu(‘bright’),and Vish-wanath (‘lord of all’).