TobyRobin

Hi !

My name is Toby Robin O'Keefe.

Out of every ten thousand kids who get named "Toby", only one is a girl. It was kind of a popular name during the Second World War, and I guess it crept into the Korean War long enough to tag me.

It would not be a problem if they had spelled my name Tobee, Tobey, Tobi or something like that. Every year at the start of school some new girl comes up and says that her dad or brother or uncle or whatever is named Toby, and that "Toby-With-A-Why" is a boy's name.

So I use both my first and middle names when I sign things, and I try to get teachers to use both names in class so that it sounds like the same kind of name as Mary Jo or Betty Sue.

Because out of every ten thousand kids who get named "Robin", only one is a boy.

So that evens things out.