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How Celebs Arrived At Stage Names (They're Stuck With)

A lot of celebrities wind up with different names than the ones they start with, and it's not always because Cruise sounds cooler than Mapother. A lot of times there's a truly interesting, if not juicy, story behind a famous person's stage name.

Props to burritomouth, whose name origins remain deeply shrouded, for coming up with this idea.

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Peter Hernandez's father called him Bruno because he thought his chunky son resembled pro wrestler. Bruno Sammartino. AS he began his path to stardo

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Ne-Yo's stage name comes from The Matrix. A good friend of the singer told him he was like NEO, but for music, because of his ability to churn out son

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Kit Harington goes by his childhood nickname, Kit. His parents didn't tell him his name is really Christopher, not Kit, until he was 11.

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Black Flag frontman Henry Rollins was born Henry Garfield, but changed his name to confuse the LAPD. His bandmates knew that being in a high-profile p

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Terry Bollea appeared on a radio show alongside Lou Ferrigno. The presenter noted that the 6'7 300-pound d-coming wrestler was bigger than the guy pl

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Faheem Najm's stage name TEPALIN is short for Tallahassee Pain, in reference to the hardships of growing up in Tallahassee, Florida. CRAGKEDCOM

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Ralph Lauren changed his last name, Lifshitz, because he was constantly made fun of when he was a kid. CRACKED.COM

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Slash got his nickname from actor Seymour Casselwhen he was a kid. He was always running around in a hurry, so Cassel labeled him Slash, and the name

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Michael Caine was originally known as Michael Scott but there was already a Michael Scott in the actors' union He was joining. He was given half an ho

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CRACy The Big Bang Theory creator Chuck Lorre took that name to boost his self-esteem. Lifor He was born Charles Levine and, whenever his mom was mad

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Tyler Okonma used to have three MySpace accounts- the first two accounts were named Tyler [something], and he couldn't think of a name for the most

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Mindy Kaling's real name is Vera Mindy Chokalingam. She was given the name Mindy because her mother was a big fan of Robin Williams! Mork and Mindy. S

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Frank Ocean's last name was inspired by a movie. Born Christopher Breaux. the singer took his stage name after watching the original Ocean's 11. CRACK

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Halsey shares her stage name with the street in Brooklyn where she decided to become a musician. rt IO X It's also an anagram of her first name, Ashle

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Richard VCheechl! Marin got his stage name the moment he was born. When his uncle saw baby Marin in the crib, he said that the future comedian looked

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Gordon Sumner often wore a yellow and black sweater his girlfriend had knitted for him. His bandmates at the time mocked him, telling him he looked li

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Lin-Manuel Miranda's name comes from a poem about the Vietnam War. Lin-Manuel's dad Luis read Nana Roja Para Mi Hijo Lin Manuel in his teens and kep

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Grimes got her name because of MySpace's web design. You could have 3 music genres on your MySpace page, so she picked 'grime' 3 times. She had no ide

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Thanks to her bullies, Lea Michele dropped her last name. Michele used to get called 'Lea So-fatty' and 'Lea So-farty' a lot, since her last name was

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LeVar Burtons's proper frst name is Levardis, but he changed it to LeVar because he wanted to be an actor, and thought LeVar... rhymes with 'star

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Joel Zimmerman came up with the name deadmau5 when he found a dead mouse in his computerwhile trying to change his graphics card. Analog

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