[micheljansen]

My wife and I wanted to give our son a name that would intuitively be pronounced the same by both sides of the family (who speak respectively Brazilian Portuguese and Dutch). Turns out that really does limit your options a lot (aside from the perennial names with Greek/Hebrew/biblical roots).

[bojan]

We had the same problem, and in the end failed. The pronunciation of E, R and I, even though similar to my ears, turns out to be quite different to the native speakers of both languages.