Andromeda/Andi actually sounds nice… but for this Crichton fan, the name would have been out of consideration! 
I know a Kevin Levin - adopted by his stepdad.
Yep – she would have been Julia Gulia.
an arrest from a newpaper: Bron’quivius Bronshay XXXX.
I had an unmarried teacher whose last name was Derr. We called her Miss Derr. Which always prompted someone to say “Mister who?”
Because the O’ means son, so he’s being named John Johnson, or Pete Peterson. I knew a lot of those growing up in the Midwest where people were actually named Ollie Olsen or at least called Jimmy Jamesson. Brian O’Brien is not strange to me.
I know what the O’ means (or used to mean since those practices fell out of favor a long time ago)… but I still think Brian O’Brian would be a terrible name.
Those of us with O’Irish names already have enough problems with forms and whatnot. No need to make it even more confusing!
Relatives almost named their daughter Iona, after the Scottish Island close to their hearts. Then they considered what might happen if she married and took her husband’s last name. Iona Ford, Iona Fox, Iona Carr, Iona Little… Iona’s now her middle name.
Our last name is a mediumly-common first name (think “Scott”) and a pediatrician once misread a form and thought our son was named “Scott Scott” and said, “Oh, what a great name, ‘Scott Scott’” and I said, “that would be a terrible name. His name is …”
My mother dated Carlton Carlton.
My FIL has such a name , and it happened to be the same name as his FIL too…very common Swedish name.
Repetition doesn’t seem to have been a huge image- or career-breaker for Boutros Boutros-Ghali, among many others.