Name change

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I have a question for you... A baby is born and is given the first name Janet, which is her mothers fist name, and the middle name Nicole. From the moment she is named, she is called Nicole...never is she ever called Janet. It was never the intent to call her anything but Nicole. Her parents, grandparents, teachers, friends, etc all know her as Nicole Smith. When she turns 16, her drivers license has her full name on it, as does her professional license when she graduates college. Other than that, she is known as Nicole. She often uses J. Nicole Smith as her name and she is irritated to no end when the occasional paperwork comes through that has her full name on it. She has even come to hate the name Janet. She wants to get her name legally changed and has considered doing it for most of her adult life. Here is the question. How should she change her name? Simply remove the Janet altogether and have no middle name? Keep the J. as her "first name" as she has become accustomed to using that more than anything? and identifies herself as being J. Nicole Smith? Make her fist name J Nicole with no middle name? Or, does she get creative and make her first name Jaye...? What do you think?