Nick's Name

This mystery seems to have been solved. According to Nick's mother Jane, it's spelled Nickolas Gene Carter. She states this on page 25 of her book which is called "The Heart and Soul of Nick Carter; Secrets Only a Mother Knows."

"We decided to name our child Nickolas for several reasons. Christmas had passed not too long before, of course, so old St. Nick was an inspiration. I chose to spell it Nickolas with a 'k' and not the 'h' that is traditional. (At the time we liked to watch a popular television show called "Eight is Enough." The youngest star in that rollicking brood was named Nicholas, and he caught our fancy.) To the Nickolas, we added Gene. This was for Bob, as it is his middle name."

If you're still interested in the Nick Name Game then here it is:

What I thought was a simple question turned out to be not so simple:

How do you spell Nick's full name? Is it Nicholas Gene Carter or Nickolas Gene Carter?

Here are the results from various search engines (Search conducted in September 1998):

Yahoo!

-Nickolas +Gene +Carter = 101 hits
Nicholas +Gene +Carter = 2,234 hits

AltaVista

-Nickolas +Gene +Carter = 423 hits
-Nicholas +Gene +Carter = 6,887 hits

eXcite

-Nickolas +Gene +Carter = 82 hits
-Nicholas +Gene +Carter = 1,560 hits

Infoseek

-Nickolas +Gene +Carter = 6 hits
-Nicholas +Gene +Carter = 38 hits

As you can see, it seems that the vast majority of sites on the Internet spell it Nicholas. Here is a scanned image of a fact sheet that Nick filled out for Teen Beat magazine. It included his full name in his writing.

I thought so! But, then I saw this:

Is that an "H" or a "K". I think it looks like a "K" but it's hard to tell. His middle name is spelled Gean? Is Nick trying to confuse us?

Nick is known to be a fan of Curt Kobain. He was famous for spelling his name in many different ways to confuse his fans.

*Thanks to WWW.Backstreet.Net for this info.

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