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I have had a single laboring patient who was called Mariposa. She was Mexican; her given name was not Mariposa but her family called her this as a pet name (I forget her real name, I'm afraid).

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I'll never get to bestow it on a real child (only because we're done having them), but it is very high on my list, as is the word Butterfly. I use Mariposa as a sort of nom de masque myself. I see no reason in the world that it should not be used as a legitimate name in its own right. The nn's Mari and Posi / Posey are easily derived and appealing as well.

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I am aware of CKE's objection that it is used to denote a gay man in Mexico, but, well, the US is not Mexico.