Are you known by your legal name, or a diminuitive?

Funny, but not true. It’s Stephanie Lynn Nicks.

Her Wikipedia entry says that “Stevie” came about when she was a toddler, and her attempt to pronounce “Stephanie” came out as “Tee-Dee,” which led to “Stevie.”

I had a church leader who was officially a Larry. He was an attorney and really hated that because everyone else had normal formal names.