My parents gave me a popular name but spelled it like another somewhat common name (a bad example would be Tom/Tim). I won't say what the name is to protect my

My parents gave me a popular name but spelled it like another somewhat common name (a bad example would be Tom/Tim). I won't say what the name is to protect my anonymity (I have never met anyone who spelled it this way). Apparently, it was an alternate spelling listed in some book, used some generations ago. I have spent my whole life correctly people. I was never harassed in school by other students, although some of my teachers would seem to take it as an affront and tell me that I was spelling my name wrong. My mother told me during my teens that if I wanted to change my name that she would understand, but oddly enough I like my name the way it is. Of course I would think differently if it was Ima Hoare.