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The only Mercedes (also called "Sadie") I ever knew had a very interesting start to life: she was the turkey baster baby of a rich, eccentric couple who eventually asked her birth/surrogate mother (who was also the wife's sister) to live with them as part of a "throuple". They lived in a huge rambling log-cabin mansion in the country, with very over-the-top Country Western decor, and they were just very odd people. This was in the early 90s, so it was the scandal of the decade in that neck of the woods, let me tell you. So I think of Mercedes as a "scandalous eccentric trashy millionaire" sort of name, which is pretty fun.