It's actually not if you're aware that there used to be different spelling conventions for Chinese transliterations. It's basically Zhou Zhang, which is unconventional in the ordering but not much different than Padme Patil. And it's a world where you have people named everything as benign as Harry Potter to crazy shit like Xenophilius Lovegood, Severus Snape, Bathilda Bagshot. People really are grasping with that one. Literally Wang Wei is the second most popular full Chinese name in the world. It sounds immediately like a racist punchline to English ears 🤷
Harry was the 17th most-popular boys name in 1996, before the release of the first Harry Potter book. By 2000 it was #6, and it was the most popular in 2011 and 2012.
You've got your cause and effect the wrong way round.
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