If you were gonna change your name...

[wolfie]

Dad's sisters were all with common names: Shirley, Nancy, Carol, Judy (which if you replace one letter in her name, that's my first name,)

Got it....you are Rudy

Nah, the Beatles got it right. Hey, Jude.

There's someone, can't remember if its a person or a character, who has a middle initial that doesn't stand for anything actually.

I believe it's the guy in the famous picture where the President-elect is holding a copy of the Chicago Tribune where the headline got the results wrong - Dewey did NOT beat Harry S. Truman.