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The Haley last name is from her hub.
Nikki Haley's Real Name and Other Politicians Who Changed Theirs
That's right, Haley's full name is Nimrata Randhawa Haley. Upon entering the political arena, the governor told theCharlotte Observer that she shortened her name to Nikki because her maiden name "wouldn't fit on a yard sign."
However, questions arose about her ethnicity when in 2011, the Associated Press reported that the Republican governor identified herself as "white" on her voter registration card in 2001. Some critics believe that Nikki Haley may have an underlying reason for hiding her racial identity.
"Given the racism inside her party, and the hostility toward non-white immigrants in so many places in the U.S., it's no wonder that Nimrata Randhawa would find it easier to maneuver the political terrain as Nikki Haley, that the Sikhism she was born into would be much more difficult to navigate than a conversion to Christianity," Eesha Pandit wrote in Salon in June.