I wanted to call myself "Francie" for a long time when I was about 6 .... thought my real name was boring ... still do ... just not enamored with any other name to this point. .... one of my nieces when she was about 3 until she was about 5 would not let us call her anything but Mike ... kept telling us she was NOT a girl ..... she's a grown up now with 2 kids of her own and very much a girl ..... but back then ..... you had to watch every word carefully around her. LOL!!