[soupboy]

They used to have something similar back in the days of Orkut. The Orkut name would get set as the Google Talk name. People used to change their Orkut names a lot to say something "cool". Then suddenly they stopped syncing the accounts with Orkut and the name that you had on Orkut stuck.

[mikeevans]

Shouldn't be a problem now with how strict they have been regarding Google+ names.