Yes, I'm such a name-nerd I did know that. I had forgotten her legal name though. I believe her father called her Smiley as a child because she smiled all the time. Smiley morphed into
Miley.
But
Miley is still so closely associated with Ms
Cyrus that the
Destiny Hope angle doesn't help, in my mind at least.
On the positive side, her parents didn't try to mangle the spelling of
Destiny or
Hope. And the nn
Miley is cute -- fetching even. It's the over-commercialization that comes to mind when I think of her career that bothers me.