His name was Barack Obama. And after his mom remarried, his name remained Barack Obama. There is a popular but false internet myth, spread by a group called the "birthers" (who believe President Obama was not born in the USA) that Barack Obama was adopted by his step-dad and became Barry Soetoro. Totally false, with no credible facts to support it. As numerous fact-checkers have noted, while Barack Obama got along well with his step-father, he was never adopted and did not change his name at any time.
When President Obama's mother was married to Lolo Soetoro, his name was Barry Soetoro.
Ann Dunham
President Obama's mother was briefly married to his dad, Barack Obama Senior, but the marriage did not work out. She later remarried, to an Indonesian businessman named Lolo Soetoro. That marriage too ended in divorce.
His father was an economics student from Nairobi, his mother a white American anthropology student when they married. http://www.nndb.com/people/208/000055043/ Mother..White American AKA European American. English and Irish.
Barack Obama's parents were married in Hawaii in 1960 and divorced in 1963.
The president does not have any biological brothers. He has one half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, from his mother's second marriage.
The president does not have any biological brothers. He has one half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, from his mother's second marriage.
The president does not have a biological sister, but he does have a half-sister. Maya Soetoro-Ng is biracial like the president, but she is half white (her mom, the president's mother) and half Indonesian (the president's step-dad).
President Obama does not have any biological sisters. However, he does have a half-sister, Maya, from when his mother re-married and gave birth to a daughter with her new husband Lolo Soetoro. As for the president's biological father, Barack Senior, he did have children with his other wives, and the president has at least one half-sister, Auma.
The mother of President Barack Obama was Ann Dunham (Stanley Ann Dunham 1942-1995). She was married to Obama's father Barack Obama, Sr. and later to Lolo Soetoro, who was Obama's stepfather and the father of his half-sister Maya.
Yes, the president's mom was married twice. After Barack Obama Senior abandoned his wife Ann and young son (the future president), they got divorced. Ann remarried, to a man from Indonesia named Lolo Soetoro, and the family moved to Indonesia, where young Barack lived for four years with his mom and new step-father, before returning to Hawaii to finish his education. The president's mom had a daughter, Maya, with her Lolo Soetoro (Maya is thus President Obama's half-sister).
Barrack Obama's mother, Ann Dunham Soetoro, was married twice. She was married to Barrack Obama Sr. from 1961-1964. She was married to Lolo Soetoro from 1967-1980.
Barack Obama's mother married a man named Barack Obama who named their new baby Barack Obama. When he was about 2 years old his father left. His mother remarried a few years later to a man named Lolo Soetoro. At this point he started using the name Soetoro. Then when Obama was about 10 his mother divorced Lolo Soetoro. She eventually went back to using Obama as did her son Barack. That is why there is confusion about Barack Obama's name. Barack Obama is our President's true name.