Having a daugther and recently went through the process of bilingual name choice I think now that how the name is written doesn't mean as much. (although we kno

Having a daugther and recently went through the process of bilingual name choice I think now that how the name is written doesn't mean as much. (although we know that if we'll have another daughter, her name will be Sophia, because it was in the short list of bilingual names :) ) English speaking people will still prononuce differently even simple names like Anna (usually they spell it with one "n"), and the stress in my (and daugther's) last name is constantly spelled not like in Russian by people who don't know Russian. At the same time acquaintance of mine called his son Christopher, and it's great name, even if Russians don't call their sons like this, because it's prononunced the same.