Why didn't Barack Obama Americanize his name?

I assume you mean to ask “why didn't he anglicize his name”? You sort of have it the reverse of what happened. Growing up, he was Barry Obama or “Bar.” It was what his mother and grandparents who raised him as a teen called him. Sometimes others called him just “Obama. read more

If he had changed his name, fox news would have eventually found out about it, and that his real name was Barack HUSSEIN Obama (believe me they would have put a strong emphasis on his middle name.) and asked why he hid that little tidbit of information from the american people. read more

A few of his friends at Occidental College had already begun to call him Barack (his formal name), and he'd come to prefer that. The way his half sister, Maya, remembers it, Obama returned home at Christmas in 1980, and there he told his mother and grandparents: no more Barry. read more

Senator Obama didn’t seriously claim to have “won” Michigan; during an 8 March 2008 Today Show interview he misspoke and inadvertently mentioned Michigan among a list of states which he had won. In accordance with the agreement mentioned in the previous entry, Barack Obama’s name didn’t even appear on the Michigan ballot. read more