Shiloh Jolie-Pitt: These celebrities took off their last name

They want to step out of the shadow of their famous parents – or distance themselves from them for personal reasons. While many so -called “Nepo babies” benefit from the name of their parents, some celebrity children deliberately choose a different way – and take the prominent surname.

In 2016 the former dream couple Hollywood broke: Angelina Jolie (49) and Brad Pitt (61) separated. This was followed by a years of rose war, which only came to an end in December 2024 with the final divorce. Several of the six children together publicly hit the mother’s side. Zahara (20) and Maddox (23) no longer use the double name Jolie-Pitt unofficially.

Shiloh Jolie-Pitt (19) went one step further: Shortly after her 18th birthday, she officially had her name changed in Shiloh Nouvel Jolie. But that’s not all – now the 19 -year -old appears under the stage name Shi Joli. So she was also mentioned in the in which she is involved as a choreographer.

Her mother has already taken this path. Angelina Jolie was born in 1975 as Angelina Jolie Voight. Her father is the Oscar winner Jon Voight (86), from whom her mother separated in 1976. Jolie grew up with her mother and was only sporadic contact with her father. In 2002 she finally took off the surname Voight and officially made her second first name as a last name.

Angelina Jolie rarely speaks about her dusting with her father. “I found that it is not healthy for me to be close to my father,” she said once. Jon Voight, who recently appointed US President Donald Trump (78), appointed Hollywood special ambassador, repeatedly against his daughter.

Similar to Brad Pitt at Shiloh, Tom Cruise (62) is at daughter Suri (19). Her mother Katie Holmes (46) divorced the superstar in 2012. Suri finally grew up with her. At her high school final ceremony in June 2024, the name Suri Cruise no longer appeared – instead it was led as Suri Noelle. Like Shiloh Jolie, she also took over her mother’s second first name, which is called Kate Noelle Holmes with a bourgeois name. She seems to consciously refrain from the well -known surname of the mother, who has made her own name as an actress.

At Malia Obama (26) there should be another reason behind the change of name – in any case, it is not a separation of the parents: ex -President Barack Obama (63) and his wife Michelle (61) are still married. Nevertheless, the former First Daughter performed in January 2024 at the Sundance Film Festival under the name Malia Ann. The artist name is composed of her first two first names.

The children of Will Smith (56) and Jada Pinkett Smith (53) also only appear under their first names as musicians: Jaden (26) and Willow (24).

Incidentally, the phenomenon of the name change is not brand new: a certain Nicolas Coppola was already giving up a new name in the early 1980s. After performing under his birth name in his first two films, he chose the pseudonym Nicolas Cage (61). The later Hollywood star wanted to avoid that his success would be returned to his famous uncle, “the godfather” director Francis Ford Coppola (86).