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Exporting Variables from Read

I'm asking the user to input some data using Read that data will be save on a variable that is going to be use in another shell script. However, for some reason is not working.

This is what I got in shell script1.sh

#!/bin/bash
read -p "Enter Your Full Name: " Name
export Name
sudo bash script2.sh

Script2.sh

#!/bin/bash
echo $Name

My understanding was that if I run sudo bash script1.sh is going to take the input and make it in a variable and using export I can export this to another script.

BTW I'm using Bash Version 4.3.11

Can anyone explain me what I'm doing wrong ? My goal is to ask the user their full name and in another script use their full name.