Or maybe one of them just not knowing how to spell? Isn’t one of them dyslexic? Although that’s just rearranging letters, right, and not changing them to ones that aren’t there? Actually, I have no idea, I should do more research before I speak, I’m usually not this unprepared in a conversation. And no! I mean, Tina and Cohen and Chang on their own aren’t super uncommon, but all together? I’ve never met another one. What about you? I mean, there are a zillion Jones’s, but do you know any other Mercedes?
That's not what dyslexia does, no, but points to creativity; I probably would've just assumed it was a prank and not tried to brainstorm other possibilities. Maybe someone wrote the name while drunk or tired and so the I became a U without them noticing? If something matters that much, you can fact-check it on Google during a conversation but the best things happen improvised, boo. I know plenty of other Mercedes's, actually, and way more Jones's, but so far, I'm the only one I've met in person. There are a few online though. They tried to add me to a Facebook group that was a bunch of people named Mercedes Jones, but it just reeked of strange. Like, cult-levels strange.