5 Things You (likely) Never Knew About President Obama’s Mum:

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45. I don't know.

It really depends on how she and her family handled the name. I've known other women with men's names that have done well for themselves-childhood usually being the hardest time for them. By the time they become adults they often come to respect their unusual names.

(This being said by someone who has a rather unusual feminized version of a very masculine name. It's awful to deal with as a child but as an adult it's something I gain many compliments over. If someone calls out my name I don't have to worry about twenty other women turning around to respond. It seems to me that she dealt with it well.)