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I don't enjoy them much. Had a colleague once who was Maria Elisabeth Helena; she used her nn, Marelna, as her elder daughter's full and only name. Didn't like that much.

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I once invented Susianne, as a variant of Susannah with a nod to Marianne. I like it, but I don't expect it to hit the charts any time soon.

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Now for the horrors. The merging of names (like Runine from Rudolf and Janine) is pretty ordinary in South Africa. Nobody finds it odd. But some work better than others.

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There's a golf tournament here that's just finished. Mostly local players, including one bloke who did quite well. Ln doesn't matter; fn is Bryandrew.

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And, similarly, there was a pretty good male dancer in the local ballet world, now retired. His name is Kimbrian, and I always assumed that it was like Cambrian with a Ki instead of the Ca, but then I met someone who knew him personally. Turns out it's kimBRIEan, as if the names were hyphenated (think Anne-Marie).

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Finally, another colleague in another job named her daughter Louchelle. That's right, Louise plus Michelle. She had another daughter whose name I once knew but my mind has rejected it, which probably means it was more, er, different than Louchelle!