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Oprah Winfrey is a household name,but it turns out "Oprah" is not her real name. A little known fact about the 61-year-old media mogul -- her family wanted to give her a Biblical name, so they ...
Orpah Gail Winfrey was born on January 29, 1954; her first name was spelled Orpah on her birth certificate after the biblical figure in the Book of Ruth, but people mispronounced it regularly and "Oprah" stuck. [a] She was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, to a teenaged mother, [24] Vernita Lee, and father Vernon Winfrey.
A middle name that is rather unusual among English speakers is that of Jennifer 8. Lee, an American author. Lee was not given a middle name at birth so she chose "8" when she was a teenager, in a nod to her Chinese ancestry; in Chinese culture, the number eight symbolizes prosperity and good luck.
“My social security card had ‘Laureen’ as my middle name.” “My mom misspelled my name actually supposed to be Sonya not Sanya.” “My name was Aima instead of Alma for 20 years.”
A birth name is the name given to a person upon birth.The term may be applied to the surname, the given name, or the entire name.Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a birth certificate or birth register may by that fact alone become the person's legal name.
Oprah Winfrey may be a household name, but the moniker wasn't what her family intended.
A legal name is the name that identifies a person for legal, administrative and other official purposes. A person's legal birth name generally is the name of the person that was given for the purpose of registration of the birth and which then appears on a birth certificate (see birth name), but may change subsequently.
Some states (for example, Alaska, Hawaii, Kansas, North Carolina, Oregon) allow diacritics and some non-English letters in birth certificates and other documents. [citation needed] There can be problems for persons with such names when moving to a state where such characters are banned and they have to renew their documents.