... was named after her father. She said that this was because he wanted a son, but other relatives believed (according to Wikipedia) that it was more because Stanley was the name of a (female) character played by her mother's favorite actress, Bette Davis, in the 1941 film In This Our Life. Stanley Ann Dunham was born in November 1942; her mother thought Stanley, as a girl's name, sounded "sophisticated".
She dropped the 'Stanley' after leaving school.
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