SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A 39-year-old man legally changed his name last month to reflect his childhood nickname. The former Raymond Allen Gray Jr. shall now be known as Bubba Bubba Bubba. Since he has long been referred to as "Bubba" or "Bubby," he feels the name change won't be hard to get used to. "My dad called me Buddy, and it got switched to Bubby.
Some of the kids couldn't pronounce Buddy too well, so they said Bubby, and it just stuck," he said. Bubba had thought about changing his name to Bubba Gray until a co-worker began calling him Bubba Bubba Bubba as a joke. Another coworker mistakenly thought that was his actual name. "That's kind of what started me thinking: Well, let's just have it all the way through - Bubba Bubba Bubba - first, middle and last," he remarked.