Most local staff in Chinese hotels get to choose a western name. I was told that this was so the expat management can remember their names!

Years ago when I was staying in the Holiday Inn in Chongqing (when it really was the only game in town), there was a small Beer Garden on the 3rd floor. The two attendants, two very slightly built Chinese girls, were called Brunnhilde and Helga! They were quite the opposite of the buxom blondes that such names conjure up! I asked one what her Chinese name was: she translated it into "Flower that blooms only in Spring"... I can understand that her (Austrian) boss may have had difficulties remember that one, but still a pity to lose poetry like that.