Mary Kay Carson: Hello. My name is Mary Kay Carson. Mary is my first name and Kay is actually my middle name, but my family has always called me Mary Kay because there are many Marys in my family, so I've always been called by both my first and middle name. That can be a problem sometimes because I don't really think of myself as having the name Mary, so if someone calls me Mary I often don't answer. People also call me M. K., it's shorter I think, and I like that too.