20 Celebrities Who Don’t Use Their Real Names

A catchy and unique stage name is one of the most important assets when celebrities want to promote themselves and make the public remember them. Some celebrities are inspired by their friends and family or simply use the nicknames of their childhood. Others choose words they like, and some even turn to online name generators to come up with something fun.

O incredible.club is ready to reveal the real names of these 20 personalities. Our team can’t wait to tell the stories behind these creations!

After becoming an actress, Blake decided to use her mother’s last name, Elaine Lively, as her stage name.

The Duchess of Sussex’s first name is actually Rachel. However, she prefers Meghan and her mother also always called her “Meg”.

Early in her career, the actress realized that the name “Emily Stone” was already used by another artist. So, she needed to think of something different. First, she chose Riley, and later, she switched to Emma. But the actress said that she still misses her real name.

The singer came up with his stage name using a rather interesting method. After deciding to use his last name as his first name, he turned to an online rap name generator and got “Malone”. He has used that name since he was a teenager.

The talented actress only uses the abbreviated version of her middle name, for the sake of simplicity.

Her father, Yiannis Anastasakis, is from Crete, Greece. After moving to the United States, the family decided to change the last name to Aniston, to make it easier for others to pronounce.

After the talented singer dropped out of school and left home, he decided to come up with his stage name. However, another Canadian band had the same name. So, to avoid copyright issues, he had to drop the “e” from his pseudonym.

Even though her first name is Orpah, people often mispronounced it as Oprah, so that one stuck.

Her real name “Mary” was given to her by her grandparents, because of family tradition (their daughter is also called Mary). However, her father always called her “Meryl” because she liked that name. And “Louise” came from her mother’s best friend, who also had the same name.

Early in his career, the name “Legend” (“legend”) was given to him by the poet J. Ivy: “I heard your music and I remembered that old school song. You look like one of the legends. I will call him John Legend.”

This name comes from her childhood, when her mother, Linda Carrol, called her “Courtney, love” (“love”), as a child.

Portman is her Russian-Jewish grandmother’s maiden name, and the actress ended up adopting it as her stage name.

Success and recognition came to the actor, when he was in his seventies. It was then that he decided to change his real name to something simpler and easier to recognize.

When she decided to fulfill her dreams and become an actress, she also realized that she needed to change her name. And she chose “Ryan” because it was her maternal grandmother’s maiden name.

Since childhood, the actor’s family has always called him Kit. Interestingly, it wasn’t until he was 11 that he realized his real name was Christopher. This happened while he was taking a school test. But even so, he decided to keep Kit.

The Russian supermodel had to change her last name a bit to make it simpler and more pronounceable.

The famous mother, Yolanda Hadid, had the idea to give her the stage name of Gigi. And of course she ended up getting it.

At age 15, she legally changed her name to Portia de Rossi. “Portia” was taken from Shakespeare’s play The merchant of Venicewhile “de Rossi” seemed exotic to her and she liked it.

At the beginning of his career, he changed his artistic name and explained: “My first single it was another track soul and I thought Calvin Harris sounded a little more racially ambiguous. I thought people wouldn’t know if I was black or not. After that, I was stuck with it.”

He created his stage name by combining a shorter version of his stepfather’s last name, Vincent, with his nickname. He was always called “Diesel” by his friends, because they said he was always full of energy.

Have you ever been called by a nickname? Which one? Do you know someone who was given an affectionate name as a child and still uses that name?