Dear Valli,
it is not a big deal really, my original spelling used to be subbalakshmi, when I was about 15 a group of friends visited Jaishankar in his home, he was just coming to have lunch.. it was a bit bold for those days, I suppose, but we were about 6 or 7 of us around the same age.. in fact my friend Radha who was older is a die hard fan of Jaishankar..
) anyway, after he had his lunch he came out to his living room and said hello and asked what our names were and when I gave mine and he asked me how did I spell it and I told him and he said subba does not mean anything but Subha means something auspicious, perhaps you might want to change it.. this sounded so right to me and that day onwards I started spelling my name as Subhalakshmi many years later, I split it for name change purpose and it was Subha Lakshmi.. I thank him for that. also feel Subha also depicts morning and I am sun worshipper, I feel one with that light and this just fits right..
sorry wrote a huge story.. O yeah, he was at that time working for a movie production called Subhalakshmi pictures.. how strange!!!
When I danced for a movie they did spell it out as subhalakshmi in telugu, I was happy..