Here's one I found:

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These names are for use in newspaper articles. The rule is to use the full name when referring to someone in an article, unless there is a reason to withhold their name (e.g., reporting on a criminal case). Traditionally full names are three characters (i.e., syllables) long with two character names being common with people from mainland China.

I have given many English names over the years. I try to keep it simple.

One of my suppliers has a son that I named Tony. He is about 5 now. This spring she had a daughter. I swear I did not plan this, but I could not help myself. I named her Carmela. :)

We have all seen some pretty interesting English names. My all time favorite was meeting a woman in a booth at the Canton Fair, maybe 10 years ago. She introduced herself as Shiny. Which is funny enough by itself. But what made it complete was her last name. It was Dong. So yes, her name is Shiny Dong. I kid you not. I had to ask who gave her the name. I was wondering if someone played a cruel joke on her. Nope, she picked it herself, and asked me "don't you like it"? What could I say? I told her it was very nice.

A few years ago a very petite girl on a transaction team introduced herself to me as 'Fawn'. 'Fawn' I said, 'that's a pretty name.' 'Oh you know it?' she said, visibly excited, 'like the baby deer.' Like the baby deer indeed.

She seems quite similar to Pretty in the vanity department. I applaud the honesty of both.

I never actually dated Pretty, but she gave me a ~40" framed picture of herself as a birthday present.

Kitty and even Birdie is sometimes a woman's nickname (or Chick for a guy), but puppy, piglet, calf, lamb, cub, etc. would all be bad.

Fawn doesn't sound too bad to me, although both Fawn and Dawn do have slight stripper/poledancer connotations IMO.

My father gave my wife (girlfriend then) her American name--first letter matches.

Her biggest issue was with people mangling it sufficiently that neither of us recognized it. It's a nuisance when you're in a waiting room and don't realize you have been called.

What's the problem with Katya?

Not Chinese, but a not totally uncommon name, which in Afrikaans is perfectly normal but always triggers a few laughs from the English speakers is Sakkie (pronounced sucky) de Kok.

When I went to get my Chinese driver's licence, they asked for my Chinese name. My Chinese mother-in-law (now ex) suggested 皇帝 supposedly Emperor King, though Huang was my Chinese (ex) wife's family name, though she also has a son whose name is Di.

I think that’s even more bold than 龙

In my company's large Chinese branch there are many strange English names in use by my Chinese colleagues.

There are both women and men named "Snow".
And other inanimate objects, like "Sky", "Wind", "Stone", "Dream", etc.

One guy also named himself after a character from Warcraft.
My favorite is someone who took the name "Roentgen". Yes, after the X-ray inventor, weird...

Then there is the guy named "Tonny", because there was already someone else named "Tony" with the same family name.

BTW, how common is it for a Chinese name to have exactly the same (short) first and last names when written in the western alphabet? I know of several males from mainland China living in the USA who belong to this category, although I haven't seen their names in Chinese characters.

Based on a cursory review of my contact list (slightly unfair sampling because most work for MNCs), I estimate 5-10%. The thing is:
1. It's possible for anyone to go this route if they want
2. Even when doing so, going with Lee instead of Li is common, and remember that both are simply representations of 李; pinyin protocols (that many people are unaware of) don't really come into play
3. I would argue that the same principle applies to non-cookie cutter transliterations (e.g. you honestly could make a case that 大卫 and David are the same)

When I was younger I used to date a much older man. He was attractive, wealthy, loved to travel and endlessly interesting. I never found anything that caused me to question any of his stories. We broke up after about a year simply bc we were at such different stages in our lives.

I run into him around town from time to time. One time was at the park. He was walking with an Asian woman who looked nearer my age than his. She introduced herself as "Milky Way." I don't know if she was Chinese. Alas, I saw him again about a year later. I asked about Milky Way but he said, "She's no longer in my life."

This comes up in movies sometimes too -- the one that sticks in my mind was from Infernal Affairs* where I think a character had 黑 in his name or nickname and the subtitles/cast referred to him as "Negro" :eek:

(Infernal Affairs is the movie that Scorsese remade in the US as The Departed -- there are also IA2 and IA3. I enjoyed all 3, although IA2 was much less confusing once I figured out it was a prequel, and IA3 cuts back and forth between timelines and is even more confusing :o :) )