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I'm finding that I have to agree with you. The name is...awkward. To me it seems like a case of 'that poor kid...when they're older they're gonna have it rough.' I have a cousin who had a baby when she was seventeen and she named her little girl Dasmin. I thought that was a poor choice for the same reason. What's possibly cute for a baby doesn't necessarily mean it will be cute on a teen or beautiful on a woman. I can't imagine how that girl is going to deal with meeting someone in a professional environment and saying to them 'My name is Amandarina.' At least the Mandy nick-name will hopefully save her some ridicule in those older elementary school years when kids pick on everyone else for the stupidest things.

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But, in the end it comes down to the fact that it's the parents choice. Also, the babies of these couple of years have had stranger and stranger names, so at least she won't be alone in this new 'unique to an obnoxious fault' trend. (I believe in unique names, but I also believe in being tasteful in your uniqueness.)