I've only seen it once-- in the Flora Segunda series by Ysabeau Wilce.

I think that it's not likely to be used frequently in modern, English language fiction because readers get confused by names that are too similar. I read a book once with a large cast of characters, and half of them had names that started with A. I got to the end of the book and still had an awful time tracking which A name went with which bits of the story. (It was a terrible book for other reasons which can't have helped, but I particularly noticed the names as a problem.)