I have a name that is frequently reversed, Giles Marion. It's more of an annoyance than either a blessing or curse. It boggles the mind. Pharmacists always call me Lewis Dafydd when I collect a prescription. No-one else does.
Pharmacists are weird.
Lewis I would like to submit my own easily manipulated label. Stanley Matthews, George Matthew Stanley, and George Stanley Matthews. An addition to your name-reversal principle. Like your correspondent Adriano Melis, I wonder what makes people's eyes glaze over when they encounter my first name. However, there was one occasion where I was forced to use my surname as a moniker.