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That kind of combination name is found useful by many Afrikaans-speaking parents who have a strong tradition of naming children after the grandparents but want to avoid having a kid who shares a name with numerous cousins. Or they merge their own names - I know a Janine who married a Rudolf and had a daughter Runine.

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I don't know if Ms Theron was named after a Charles and an Elize, or if her parents just followed the merger tradition because they liked the sound of it.