for real?

i was taking a cake order on sunday and when i asked the lady her name she says what sounded like "anime". it was pretty weird. i almost asked her if she was serious, but i stopped myself and asked her if that was one word or not instead. so she spelled it out for me: "AnnaMae". i kept thinking about how any slight in pronunciation and accenting could have been helped for a while after (like Laura and Lara, where you listen carefully for the u), but i couldn't come up with much of a difference save for a slight pause between anna and mae. but since it was one word, it makes sense there's no pause? just plain bizarre. really.