The real name index

What is your favourite celebrity’s real name?

You know them by a stage name, a single word, a nickname the fans invented and nobody ever corrected. Somewhere underneath all of that is the name on the birth certificate. Type anyone in and we will show you both.

Birth names Stage names Sourced, every entry

The real name finder

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Names on file

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Names we guessed

Stage name, and the one before it

Everybody arrives with a different name.

A name gets shortened for a marquee, softened for a record label, or dropped entirely for a single word. On the left, the name you know. On the right, the one that came first.

Lady Gaga

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta

Freddie Mercury

Farrokh Bulsara

Zendaya

Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman

Dilip Kumar

Mohammed Yusuf Khan

Bruno Mars

Peter Gene Hernandez

Rajinikanth

Shivaji Rao Gaekwad

Elton John

Reginald Kenneth Dwight

What every entry gives you

I

The name before the fame

Stage names, single names, initials, names a studio picked in an afternoon. We show you the one written down first, and the one the world learned later.

II

A face beside the name

Every answer arrives with a photograph, so there is no confusion between the four famous Khans or the five famous Chrises.

III

Sourced, never invented

Each name links back to the public record it came from. Where nothing has been published, the page says so rather than filling the gap.

IV

Anyone, not a shortlist

Singers, novelists, wrestlers, chess champions, heads of state. If a person is public, their given name belongs here.

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Every row dated and sourced

Known asReal nameFieldChecked
Lady GagaStefani GermanottaMusic1 min ago
RajinikanthShivaji Rao GaekwadCinema2 min ago
Cardi BBelcalis Marlenis AlmánzarHip hop4 min ago
Michael CaineMaurice Joseph MicklewhiteHollywood6 min ago
Katy PerryKatheryn Elizabeth HudsonMusic8 min ago
Akshay KumarRajiv Hari Om BhatiaBollywood11 min ago
A stage name is a decision. A real name is a fact. We only publish the second one.
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One name in. The name underneath it out.

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