Actually, he did go by the name Barry Soetoro in Indonesia when his mom was married to his stepdad. But the name on his birth certificate is "Barack Hussein Obama". There's a lot of nonsense out there about Barack's early years, and this article talks about a lot of them:

History of schooling distorted -- chicagotribune.com
khronik Reviewed by khronik on . He is Named after Mohammeds horse Mohammed's Ascension In the year 621, at the age of 51 years old, He flew on the magical Winged-Horse of Fire which he called Burak, which literally means White Horse but seen as "Thunder-Lightning". The full version of this most memorable moment has been preserved in "The Bokhari" (Vol.15, p.3615) one of the Holy Islamic Scriptures. The beauty of the Muslim Scriptures resides in the fact that they still remain in the language in which they have originally written. Why doesnt he just Rating: 5