Yeah, Google gave me twenty bajillion hits. Stupid MTV Cribs. I started using the name years ago–all my game and internet screen names are scientific names of venomous snakes. I thought Nivea sounded nice, but now I suppose the entire SDMB thinks I’m on the trailer park bandwagon :smack:.
I don’t think that’s what she was referencing.
When my parents had their last child, they made a deal that my dad could name it if it turned out to be a boy, and my mother if it was a girl. My dad was in all seriousness ready to inflict Woodrow Wolfgang Lastname on the poor kid. He thought it would be funny to call the kid “Woody-Woolfy” for short. Thank Jebus she was a girl.
Friends of friends have a grandson named Maverick, and I do think it’s a neat name. But his baby brother is Mustang. I can’t for the life of me remember the sister’s name, but it’s along the lines of Dakota or Sierra… something vaguely western sounding.
Weirdest combinations I ever encountered were Julio Frankewicz and Juan Schmidbauer. One of the guys I hung around with in high school was saddled with Myron Werbowecky, which is loads of fun to say (and who was really a pretty cool guy despite the amazing nerdiness of his name.)
But, Mercedes is a girl name! 
He probably heard about Bill Lear’s daughter, Shanda. That happens to be her middle name, her first name is Crystal.
That’s not a good sense of humor, it’s more sadistic than funny.
My first babysitter had a combined name: Donella, for her parents Don and Ella.
Went to elementary school with a boy named Marshall Dillon.
I met a woman named Preselfannie. Fortunately I saw her name in writing before actually meeting her, as it took me a moment or two to figure it out.
I totally did too, and it took a LOT of rereading to get why the name wasn’t “Hombre Anglo”
Gestalt
And the perfectly good “Candida” (~ white, like Blanche and Gwendolen) has other connotations.
All right, Hal, who has the first-best name in rock and roll?
What an odd idea.
Do you suppose the family is in the habit of reversing *all *religious words? How about the Lord’s Prayer? The Christening ceremony must have been quite remarkable.
When my sister was expecting her first, she asked for suggestions in naming her daughter. My brother (smart ass that he is) suggested Amanda for the first name and told her he thought that Lynn would be perfect as a middle name.
She was all for it… for about a week… when she told someone else the name and realized that she didn’t want her daughter named after a small stringed intrument.
OK I know I’m being thick but could somebody please explain why his name *wasn’t * Hombre Anglo? I’m lost. What was his name?
Kids I used to babysit had a friend called Doobydoo. That’s (presumably) not the correct spelling but that’s how they pronounced it. Never got to meet that kid dammit. 
Back in Cuba I worked with programmer named Maikel, which is the phonetic spanish pronunciation of Michael. He’s in the US now and I imagine he has to explain his name a lot.
zelie “Anglo” is an adjective in this case, meaning “the last name was Anglo in origin, like Smith or Miller or Praline”.
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Of course it is. Boy that post was hard work!
There was a contestant on Survivor a few seasons back with that name, and she had the same explanation for it. She must have been around 20, so someone came up with it a while back.
There was a teacher at my high school who named his two sons Gunner and Gator.
Nice.
Mervis? 
I went to nursing school with a young woman of Hispanic descent named Milena (pronounced muh-lenna). Immediately after we learned that melena is black, tarry stool, she started pronouncing it “Mee-lenna.”
Declan is an old Irish name. I’m not sure about the pedigrees of Esmerelda and Lucia, but those are real names also. I think they’re very nice, and they don’t strike me as particularly “artistic.” YMMV.
By “it,” I mean her name. :smack:
Female checker seen at local Super-K. Chimera. Complete with faux gold script neck chain proclaiming her name to all.