{"id":2098141,"date":"2025-10-17T17:16:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2098141"},"modified":"2025-10-17T17:16:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:16:26","slug":"16-surprising-celebrities-who-changed-their-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/16-surprising-celebrities-who-changed-their-names\/","title":{"rendered":"16 Surprising Celebrities Who Changed Their Names"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some celebrities are pretty well known for opting for a stage name \u2014 Chappell Roan<\/a> literally built an entire persona around hers, and Madonna<\/a> is, well, Madonna<\/i>. But for a whole load of other famous faces, their names not being the one that they were given at birth is a little less obvious.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In fact, some of the new monikers sound so natural or suit them so well that you might have never even stopped to think that they weren\u2019t always known by them. Here are 16 of the best examples:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Some celebrities are pretty well known for opting for a stage name \u2014 Chappell Roan literally built an entire persona around hers, and Madonna is, well, Madonna. But for a whole load of other famous faces, their names not being the one that they were given at birth is a little less obvious.\u00a0 In fact, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2098142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[239358,91165,239942],"class_list":["post-2098141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-dib-celebs","tag-evergreen","tag-uk-celeb-team"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/16-Surprising-Celebrities-Who-Changed-Their-Names.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2098141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2098143,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098141\/revisions\/2098143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2098142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2098141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2098141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2098141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}