It does bug me that while Wanda is a very Slavic name (of Polish origin), Pietro is a very Romance-language way to say "Peter" (irl you mostly see it as an Italian name) and his name should most likely be "Piotr"
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I mean okay I don't expect Stan Lee in the 60s to have been a cultural encyclopedia And it's not that big a deal, there's a huge range of places they could theoretically be from, and according to Wikipedia "Petro" or "Piatro" wouldn't be out of place in Ukraine or Belarus
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Replying to @arthur_affect
There were a couple famous Pietro's in art and history, it's not impossible for parents to hear that sort of variation of a common local name and decide to go with it. But I'm still trying to figure out why anyone in 1910s NY would decide to name their kid after James Buchanan.
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Best I can give you is maybe they were Scottish/Irish immigrants who latched onto the fact there was a US President with a conspicuously Celtic surname
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This was part of the unspoken irony in The Great Gatsby of Tom Buchanan going off on his rant about his "Nordic" genetic supremacy
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