Life as the other Amelia Earhart, Justin Bieber and even Honest Abe

She hadn't yet become a TV personality, received thousands of dollars in donations or made her flight plan -- and so she hated her name. Amelia Rose Earhart of the second grade decided she would be Amy. She couldn't understand why her parents gave her the name of a woman who was famous for feats she attempted and more famous because she never achieved them. So she was Amy. Amelia was just too big.