How did Lady Bird Johnson got her royal title "Lady"?

Question

How did Lady Bird Johnson got her royal title "Lady"?

Answer 1

It's not a title.  "Lady Bird" was a nickname.

Answer 2

that was a nickname for the old bird, bury her in the wildflowers

Answer 3

It's not a royal title.  "Lady Bird" is a nickname she had since a child.  A "Lady bird" is another name for a ladybug.

Her real name, by the way, is Claudia.

Answer 4

the queen

Answer 5

She didn't. Her real name was Claudia. "Lady Bird" was her nickname from childhood that was given to her by a nurse maid.

Answer 6

She was as far from being a lady as anyone could be,I think they called her lady bug behind her back.

Answer 7

She was also the First Lady in the white house when her husband was President. That might be how.

Answer 8

I think her parents probably named her Lady Bird soon after she was born. Or was it a nick name?

Answer 9

Lady Bird is her nickname. A nurse said when she was little that she was "pretty as a Lady Bird" and it stuck. Her real name is Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson.

Answer 10

As a US citizen she can't have a British title of nobility, if she did it would be honorary and she couldn't use it.

Answer 11

the name lady is not a title it is her real name bird is her middle name and of course johnson was her last name.

Answer 12

It's not a title, it's a nickname, supposedly given her by her nurse when she was a child (she had a nurse because her mother died when she was only 5), who said she was "Purty as a lady bird" :-)  Her birth name was Claudia Alta Taylor, and she was a (distant!!!!!) cousin of mine.

Answer 13

Lady Bird Johnson's name is a nickname, not a title.  Her real name was Claudia.  When she was a little girl, someone commented that she was "as pretty as a lady bird", and the nickname stuck.

Answer 14

Isn't it interesting that Lady Bird Johnson and Lyndon Baines Johnson both initial out to L.B.J

Answer 15

When she was a very young girl, one of the house maids said she was as pretty as a "lady bird", and the name stuck. I heard this on the nightly news the other night

Answer 16

Nickname.  Not title.

Answer 17

It is not a title. Our first lady was given the nickname Lady Bird by her nurse who said that Claudia was as pretty as a lady bird.The name stuck.