When I was born, my dad told my mother he didn't care what she named me, but he wanted to call me Joy. So, she picked Gloria Joyce. All my life, my whole family has called me Joy. When I started to school, they wouldn't let me use Joy as they said it was a nickname, so I went by Joyce. But of course all school, employment, and health records are under Gloria Joyce so I've been called Gloria a lot too.
I am really glad though that my mother didn't have her first pick......Debra Ann! Her sister had a baby three months before I was born and named HER Debra Ann. Thank goodness! All through elementary and high school there were at least 4 girls in my grade alone named Debra, and we had to delineate them as Debra Ann, Debra Lynn, Debra Sue, and Debbie. Plus there were other Debras in other grades. I was so glad not to be named Debra Ann.