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I've seen a little bit of that sort of naming, especially among people I went to school with, too - not as much among kids now but still a little. I agree with you.

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I guess it's more that I see Matilda as being super Germanic in a way that seems ugly to me, than it is that there's anything awkward about the multicultural aspect of the combination. I was trying to come up with a fn-ln combo that sounded as awkward, for comparison, but all the ones I put together sounded fine. Frida Matsumoto, Ursula Ibrahim ... Tilda H. is as cool as those, but Matilda H. (not sure he minds if I post the surname even though he has told us in the past) doesn't quite sit right with me somehow. It's like Gertrude Mahapatra or Hildegard Krylova... the impression the first names give me is kind of ugly, and next to a long pretty unexpected surname they seem worse.

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- mirfak