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We wanted to name our first daughter after her grandmothers. My mother had only one name, Beatrice, so that was easy, but DH's mother, who died when he was just 5, was Afrikaans-speaking and her names were Bertha Maria. In Afrikaans, Bertha sounds like Bear-tah, but when she married my FIL they used the English pronunciation. We decided against Beatrice Bertha, and Maria made it all too long (her first name was Caroline), so we named her Caroline Beatrice Mary instead. We didn't dislike Maria particularly, but apart from the length issue, Mary was definitely English, and Maria can appear in umpteen languages.