Homer and Lisa Simpson are characters from the long-running sitcom The Simpsons. It is never implied that Homer had other ideas for her name.
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Lisa pretends to be a boy in the episode "Girls Just Want to Have Sums."
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At the beginning of the story, Homer's father wanted Homer to work in the coal mines so that Homer could get stronger. He wanted Homer to play football like his older brother, but Homer was to small and weak. In Coalwood, West Virginia, (where the Hickams live), mining is really the only option that Homer has to get a job. His father is a miner and practically everyone he knows works at the mines. The only oppurtunity to leave Coalwood would be if he got a football scholarship to go play in college. Homer's older brother receives one of these coveted football scholarships as the story progresses.
The characrer's name was Gina Vendetti and she was voiced by Sarah Michelle Gellar in the episode 'the wandering Juvie' (episode 16, season 15).
Maybe your thinking of the song I want you to want me originally made by Cheap Trick in 1977.