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Hollywood’s adjacent procreation is making a connection with their surnames.
Brad Pitt’s daughters, Shiloh, Zahara and Vivienne, are among the galore personage kids who person chosen to driblet their parents’s celebrated past names.
Shiloh filed to legally marque the change successful May 2024, portion her sisters debuted their shorter monikers astatine nationalist events.
The siblings notably followed successful their ma Angelina Jolie’s footsteps.
The “Maleficent” histrion did the aforesaid erstwhile she changed her past sanction amid her estrangement from dada Jon Voight.
Read connected to find retired which personage offspring are making the large determination — and why.
Suri Cruise to Suri Noelle
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When Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ daughter, Suri, graduated from precocious school successful June 2024, her sanction was listed arsenic Suri Noelle connected the event’s program.
The surname honors her mother, arsenic Noelle is the “Dawson’s Creek” alum’s mediate name.
Tom, who divorced Holmes successful 2012 and has not had a narration with Suri successful years, made headlines for skipping his daughter’s graduation successful New York City and alternatively attending Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour show successful London the pursuing day.
Shiloh Jolie-Pitt to Shiloh Jolie
Shiloh didn’t discarded immoderate clip dropping her dad’s past name, filing to marque the alteration from Jolie-Pitt to conscionable Jolie connected her 18th birthday.
The teen “hired her ain lawyer and paid for it herself,” “Entertainment Tonight” reported successful June 2024.
A root told People that Pitt was “aware and upset” by the news, which made headlines 8 years into his and Angelina’s contentious divorcement proceedings.
Zahara Jolie-Pitt to Zahara Jolie
Pitt’s eldest girl made headlines for proudly shouting her shortened sanction during an Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority induction ceremonial successful November 2023.
The Spelman College pupil screamed, “Zahara Marley Jolie.”
Social media users reacted to the evident diss, with 1 writing, “Oh Zahara said her past sanction is Jolie, not Jolie-Pitt.”
Vivienne Jolie-Pitt to Vivienne Jolie
Vivienne worked with her ma connected the Broadway adaptation of “The Outsiders” successful 2024 — and appeared to diss her dada erstwhile the play premiered that May.
The adjunct was listed arsenic Vivienne Jolie successful the show’s Playbill.
As with Zahara, it remains unclear whether the teen’s past sanction is inactive legally Jolie-Pitt.
Angelina Jolie Voight to Angelina Jolie
Angelina had an on-again, off-again narration with her celebrated begetter for years earlier getting her sanction legally changed successful 2002.
“I bash not privation to marque nationalist the reasons for my atrocious narration with my father,” the histrion said astatine the time. “I person determined that it is not steadfast for maine to beryllium astir my father.”
Voight has continued to talk astir Angelina amid their estrangement, congratulating her and Vivienne successful June 2024 erstwhile “The Outsiders” won a Tony Award.
Tanner Elle Schneider to Elle King
Elle King dropped dada Rob Schneider’s past sanction successful favour of her ma London King’s earlier pursuing a vocation successful the euphony industry.
“I wanted to beryllium my ain person,” she explained to People successful February 2023. “I privation to person a beingness built for myself, and I privation to cognize that I did it.
“My begetter and I person a beauteous and truly wonderful, large loving narration with awesome boundaries,” Elle clarified astatine the time. “I emotion my dada truthful much.”
Malia Obama to Malia Ann
Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s eldest girl has dropped her parents’s past sanction successful her originative pursuits.
When the Harvard University postgraduate debuted her abbreviated film, “The Heart,” astatine the Sundance Film Festival successful January 2024, she was credited arsenic Malia Ann.
Ann, notably, is the erstwhile archetypal daughter’s mediate name.
Micheál Neeson to Micheál Richardson
Liam Neeson’s lad Micheál legally changed his past sanction for a sentimental crushed aft his mom, Natasha Richardson, died successful a 2009 skiing accident.
The “Taken” star’s eldest kid present goes by Micheál Richardson alternatively of Micheál Neeson.
Liam applauded the determination successful a 2020 “Radio Andy” interview, calling it a “lovely homage” helium was “touched by.”
Nicolas Coppola to Nicolas Cage
After Nicolas Cage’s roles successful “Fast Times astatine Ridgemont High” and “Rumble Fish,” helium changed his past sanction to differentiate himself from his uncle Francis Ford Coppola.
His caller sanction was inspired by “a operation of Luke Cage from Marvel Comics … and John Cage, the avant-garde composer,” the “Wicker Man” prima told Wired successful 2022.
“Speaks volumes astir what I’ve been up to ever since,” Cage joked.
Xavier Alexander Musk to Vivian Jenna Wilson
In April 2022, soon earlier her 18th birthday, Elon Musk’s girl Vivian filed to legally alteration her sanction and gender.
The teen, who opted for ma Justine Wilson’s surname, listed her information arsenic “gender individuality and the information that I nary longer unrecorded with oregon privation to beryllium related to my biologic begetter successful immoderate way, signifier oregon form.”
Elon addressed their estrangement aft Vivian’s name alteration was granted, with the 12-time dad joking that helium “can’t triumph them all.”
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