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Whats your ethnic background ?

Irish, Scottish, Welsh, English, German, Hungarian, and Dutch on my father's side, and on my mother's side the family records burned up many years ago, but they seem to be primarily of Scottish and Irish heritage with a smidge of Choctaw thrown in.
 
So where does your name come from?

Bongomania? It comes from Spain by way of Cuba. ;) Oh, you mean my real name? My first name is Persian (Iranian), my middle name is Mexican, and my last name is Hungarian- although the only other people with my last name currently live in Germany, not Hungary. Go figure. The first and middle names are supposed to remind me of California history... it's a long story. Hippie parents.
 
Maternal Grandmother = 100% English (immigrant from Nottingham, UK... still have family there)
Maternal Grandfather = 1/2 English - 3/8 German - 1/8 American Indian

Father = Adopted with a birth name of "Barrett" looks to be of British Isle descent with a touch of Mediterranean (Italian or Greek maybe).