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In the past, when a person moved to another country, it was common for that person to change their name to one that country would find "normal" (or have it changed for them). The reasons for doing this were numerous; they could want to "blend in" better, they may want to avoid discrimination, or they may want to symbolize a complete break from their past (especially if they're on the run for something they did back in the old country). At other times, the name change can be forced on them by an overworked immigration official (although in reality this is something of a Dead Unicorn Trope, or at least the immigration officials who did this have been Misblamed; when this did happen, it was usually the result of officials copying misspelled names from the shipping companies' passenger manifests). Although less common today (although on occasion even today someone may change their first name), this was once very much Truth in Television. Still common in fiction that takes place in these time periods. The six most common types of name changes were: Approximation: The name is changed to something similar, so "Horwitz" becomes "Howard". Changed Spelling: The name is respelled, so "Schneider" becomes "Snyder" or "Svensson" becomes "Swenson" or "Swanson". Translation: If the name has a specific meaning, it might be translated, so "Schneider" becomes "Tailor" or "Schmidt" becomes "Smith". Truncated: The name is shortened, so "Stephanopolous" becomes "Stevens" or "O'Riordan" becomes "Reardon". A mash-up of things said to the official. For example, a guy is named Han, but says that he has no last name because he has no family, he is alone... and the official registers him as "Han Solo". In most cases it is Played for Laughs. Clerical Error: An official might misspell a name, or confuse the information given to them so that (for example) an immigrant's hometown becomes their new last name. Random Name Change: A new name is more-or-less picked at random, with little or no resemblance to the original name. The name change doesn't necessarily have to happen the moment someone arrives in a country; the name change might happen even if a family's been in a country for generations if circumstances occur such as a wave of Patriotic Fervor is sweeping the nation, or if the country they live in is at war with the country their last name sounds like it's from (such as having a German-sounding last name in America during WWI). Sometimes, the name will be changed more than once, so the name "Rothstein" might get changed to "Roth", and then "Roth" might then get changed to "Ross". When a character translates their name to use as an alias, it's This Is My Name on Foreign. Compare Dub Name Change, where the character's name is changed due to Real Life choices, not In-Universe ones. |
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In The Name Jar, Unhei has to pick a name from the eponymous Name Jar because the other kids have a hard time pronouncing her Korean name. | |
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Sally Jupiter, the first Silk Spectre, from Watchmen changed her name from "Juspeczyk" so people wouldn't know she was Polish. Her daughter Laurie went the opposite route and changed her surname back to "Juspeczyk," both to take pride in her Polish heritage and so that people wouldn't automatically associate her with her mother. | |
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In The Unstoppable Wasp, Nadia Pym changes her name to Nadia Van Dyne after becoming a naturalized American citizen, as a way of getting out of her famous father's shadow. | |
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One line in Another Period implies the Bellacourt family was once the "Bellawitcz" family. | |
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In The Alienist, Lucius and Marcus Isaacson's Russian parents gave them more English-sounding forenames in order to downplay their foreign heritage. | |
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Dimension 20: The "Misfits and Magic" campaign is set at an isolationist wizarding boarding school in England, so culture clash comes up a lot. One of the main characters' classmates, Cleopatra St. Oppolie, explains that she changed her name because no one at school could be bothered to learn how to pronounce her given name. To add insult to injury, she doesn't even like the name "Cleopatra," and only puts up with it in order to fit in with wizarding culture. The gang is appalled, and ask what she'd rather they call her. Having bonded with them a bit over feeling like outsiders and seeing they're sincere, she asks them to call her by her real name: Khanh Nguyen. | |
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In Local Hero, the top CEO at an American oil company wants to send an employee named MacIntyre to Scotland to negotiate the purchase of a small Scottish village on the basis of his surname; he even tells MacIntyre that for him, going to Scotland must be like going home. MacIntyre later tells a coworker that he's not really Scottish; his parents were Hungarian, and they changed their names because they thought MacIntyre was a more American-sounding name. | |
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Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego: In the episode where Sir Vile steals the Statue of Liberty from New York in the year 1886, Kevin Shinick and the Time Pilots receive a visit from an Ellis Island official from c. 1901. She renames Shinick "Shin", and she goes on to explain that immigrants often change their surnames to fit in better with American society. For example, a man named Rabinovich changed his name to "Robbins". Sir Vile, however, inverted this trope by opting to make his name sound more foreign: Sir Vile-owitzovitchonavestannenburg. | |
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A Young Girl's Guerrilla War: As part of Britannia’s cultural genocide campaigns, Honorary Britannians are required to adopt new Anglicized names to reflect their new status as subjects of the HBE. The Japanese are no different—Sumeragi Kaguya has had her name legally changed to "Sophie Sumeragi." | |
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Let's Get Divorced!: The Korean-Australians in the comic have Korean and English names. Hyeon Ryu goes by David Ryu in English, while Claire's Korean name is Hae-yeong. | |
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Andor reveals that Cassian Andor's original name was Kassa, which was altered to disguise his background and actual homeworld of Kenari in order to protect him from the Republic and later the Empire as both governments committed atrocities there which they subsequently covered up. | |
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Arrow. China White is presented as a Westernized version of her real name Chien Na Wei, which she's adopted as a supervillain name. | |
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Happy!: Sonny Shine was born Louis J. Sheinberg, but changed his name because "Sonny Shine" was more marketable. Happy's full name is Happilocus Imaginus. Since that's kind of a mouthful for the imaginary friend of a little girl, he shortened it to "Happy". |
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House: It's revealed that a patient changed his name from "Jamal Hammoud" to "Jerry Harmon" after the Gulf War. House actually figures this out before the patient tells him, because his disease is most common in people of Eastern-Mediterranean descent. But because he doesn't know which specific country, he throws out some guesses to his birth surname, like Hasarian, Herzog, and "Halibaba". | |
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Actor James Rodriguez changed his name to James Roday in order to land the lead role on Psych. In 2020, he decided to reclaim his birth name, becoming James Roday Rodriguez. | |
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In Trust, Bullimore's name is actually Jahangir Khan, but J. Paul Getty started calling him "Bullimore", because that was the name of his original butler, and Khan never bothered to correct him. | |
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Some Like It Hot has the singer Sugar Kane. Her birth name is "Sugar Kowalczyk". | |
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The Simpsons: Played for Laughs in the episode "Bart-Mangled Banner". After relocating to France, the Simpsons become homesick and travel back to America. When Homer states their family name to an official, the man changes it to "Simps". To really drive the point home, they arrived in New York by boat and were dressed in nineteenth century European clothes while "Coming to America" plays in the background. Also parodied in "In the Name of the Grandfather", where Americans who are sick of America go to Ireland's "MacEllis Island" and have their names changed to stereotypical Irish names. |
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In the series Frayed, one of the characters is the local MP for Newcastle, NSW who changed his name to a more Anglicised equivalent of his own ethnic Greek name in order to get ahead in politics. | |
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Past Lives: Na Young chose the name Nora after immigrating to Canada and then the United States. Hae Sung is the only one who calls her Na Young in the present. | |
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In Gunsmith Cats Ken sometimes gets called Kentucky, as his real name is Ken Takizawa. | |
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Miraculous Ladybug: Sabine's name was originally Xia Bing, but she changed it to a more French sounding name after moving to France. Gabriel Agreste was born Gabi Grassette, but changed his name to "Gabriel Agreste" to conceal the fact that his family ran a french fry restaurant. |
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Gotham: Oswald Cobblepot (the Penguin) was born with the name Kapelput, which his mother still uses. | |
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Alien Nation. The Newcomers were given Earth names when they arrived. Eventually, immigration officials got bored and decided to have fun with the names; many were named after famous humans (such as Rudyard Kipling, Albert Einstein, or Humphrey Bogart), others were given Punny Names (including Sam Francisco, Harley Davidson, Dallas Fort-Worth, Kenny Bunkport, Paul Bearer, and Norman Conquest). Sam Francisco is actually one of the lead characters; his human partner finds the pun so repulsive he insists on calling him George. | |
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In Elise the Devil, the demon Iblis adopts the name Elise after being Brought Down to Normal, the better to fit in with the humans that she now has to deal with. | |
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Both Superman and Supergirl are Kryptonians. Superman's birth name is "Kal-El" but he was raised as "Clark" by his human family. Pre-Crisis Supergirl used "Linda Danvers" as her Secret Identity but more modern depictions typically avert this trope and have her use her name, Kara, instead. | |
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Wondermark: Mr. Meanscary's name was chosen by his grandfather on Ellis Island. | |
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In The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Sammy Klayman and Josef Kavalier adopt the names Sam Clay and Joe Kavalier when they enter the comic-book business. Sam's dad, born Alter Klayman, also operates under a naturalized name, Alphonse von Klay. | |
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In Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently was actually born "Svlad Cjelli". | |
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Touhou Eiyashou ~ Imperishable Night: For Reisen Udongein Inaba, 鈴仙 (rei sen) is a naturalised Japanese spelling of the name she had on the moon, while Udongein and Inaba are "Earth-style names" given to her by Eirin and Kaguya respectively (though "Inaba" is conspicuously spelled phonetically as イナãƒ�, rather than using the spelling of the å› å¹¡ province as with Tewi's surname). As the original spelling is still used occasionally by moon-dwelling characters (one of whom is even named after her), fans sometimes transcribe it as things like "Raysen" to make the distinction more clear. It's also confirmed that è¼�夜 is not the spelling of Kaguya's name that the princess used while living on the moon, but one that was given to her by her adoptive parents in the events of The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. Unlike Reisen, this rarely ever comes up. Touhou Bougetsushou reveals that some Lunarians, including Eirin and the Chinese goddess Chang'e, have true names which can only be pronounced by the spiritually untainted, requiring them to adopt pseudonyms for use with Earthlings (though "Yagokoro" is still Eirin's original surname). This is part of the evidence that Eirin is actually Omoikane. |
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In Caprica, Joseph Adama changed his name to Joseph Adams to fit in better with Caprican society. He changes it back at the end of the pilot. | |
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Touhou Bougetsushou reveals that some Lunarians, including Eirin and the Chinese goddess Chang'e, have true names which can only be pronounced by the spiritually untainted, requiring them to adopt pseudonyms for use with Earthlings (though "Yagokoro" is still Eirin's original surname). This is part of the evidence that Eirin is actually Omoikane. | |
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In The Tomb of Dracula, Dracula is revealed to have descendants who left for the United States. They changed their surname to "Drake" in order to hide their heritage. | |
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The original name of Starfire of the Teen Titans is Kori'andr. When she got to Earth, she adopted the name Kory Anders. "Starfire" is also a literal translation of her name. | |
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In Pyotr Romanov Barnes' improbable lifestyle., "Peter Parker" is just an Anglicized name he wears when going to school as to keep his relations a secret. His real name is Pyotr Romanov Barnes. | |
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In Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Shang-Chi escaped his Chinese father and goes by Shaun while laying low in San Francisco. His friend Katy Chen (a third-generation immigrant whose Chinese name is Ruiwen) considers it a Lazy Alias. | |
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In The Wrestler, Randy Robinson was born Robin Ramsinski, but changed it so that he could pursue a career as an All-American Face. | |
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In The Yukon Trail, one of the player's potential partners is a Native American woman who adopted the name Linda because many of the prospectors she deals with have difficulty pronouncing her real name. | |
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Discworld In Feet of Clay, it's briefly mentioned that Cheery Littlebottom's surname in Dwarfish is actually "Sh'rt'azs". Presumably, the same goes for other Morporkian dwarf names. Billy Slick, a goblin working for Harry King in Snuff who reckons you can't get ahead in Ankh-Morpork with a goblin name like Of the Wind Regretfully Blown. |
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'Salem's Lot mentions that the Glicks changed their family from Gliccoucchi. | |
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In Final Fantasy XIV, the Hellsguard Roegadyn immigrated from their mountain homes to the city-states of Eorzea to find work for their Proud Warrior Race as mercenaries. Because the natives of the realm had a poor grasp of the Roegadyn language, they took to translating the meaning of their names into the common language. The tradition continues to this day, even after the Hellsguard had fully integrated into society. So while the Sea Wolf Roegadyn still use names of their native language like "Merlwyb" and "Wyrnzoen", Hellsguard have names like "Broken Mountain" and "Yellow Moon". | |
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Something to Talk About: Jo uses the last name Jones, since when going by Cheung nobody in Hollywood gave her jobs. She's understandably bitter about this. | |
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In American Dreams (2021), Jake and Becky Gold were born with the names Yaakov and Rivka, but adopted more American-sounding names when their family arrived in New York City. | |
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Superman Smashes the Klan: Chinese-American Roberta Lee's Chinese name is Lan-Shin, in keeping with the Superman supporting cast's Theme Initials of LL. At the end of the story, she starts going by Lan-Shin again at Lois's suggestion. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1985): In "Time and Teresa Golowitz", Bluestone's original surname was Blaustein but he changed it at the beginning of his career as a composer. | |
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In Monster Girl Doctor, the main character and a few others come from a fantasy counterpart of Japan. As a result of them moving to the city of Lindworm, Guren became Glenn, Suiu became Sioux and Fu Sang became Fuso. | |
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In 3rd Rock from the Sun, the Solomons' real names are never revealed. They chose the last name Solomon off of a passing truck; Harry remarks that they nearly became "the Wal-Marts". | |
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Billy Slick, a goblin working for Harry King in Snuff who reckons you can't get ahead in Ankh-Morpork with a goblin name like Of the Wind Regretfully Blown. | |
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Digimon Adventure: In a move that blurs the line between this and Dub Name Change, the heroes still officially have their Japanese names in the English dub, but use shortened western sounding nicknames In-Universe. Shown in the character title screens in the first episode with examples like Yamato "Matt" Ishida or Koushiro "Izzy" Izumi, who takes his nickname from his last name. | |
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In The Americans, everyone involved in the Illegals program adopted more American-sounding names when they arrived in the United States, and thus Nadezhda and Misha became Elizabeth and Phillip Jennings, Vitaly became William Crandall, and Semyon became Gabriel. | |
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Parasite (2019) has a variation in that while every character is Korean, go by Korean names, and the story never leaves Seoul, three characters also take on Westernized names — Truth in Television as it's not uncommon for East Asians who want to make it big to do this in order to make connections in the West. The patriarch of the rich Parks, Dong-ik, is a top guy in his architectural firm and English-language articles framed around the house name him Nathan Park; the two adult children of the poor Kims, Ki-Woo and Ki-jeong, use the names Kevin and Jessica as part of their made-up persona of having studied in the United States in order to impress the Super Gullible Mrs. Park into hiring them. | |
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The Emigrants: Upon being naturalized as a U.S. citizen, Karl Oskar Nilson changes his legal name to Charles O. Nelson; which name he uses is somewhat situationally specific, though. | |
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Whale Star: The Gyeongseong Mermaid: Koreans who are in their occupier Japan's good graces have Japanese names. Yunhwa Yeo becomes Rinka Riyo, while Uihyeon Kang is referred to as Iken Kan when he studies in Japan. | |
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According to Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy Velma's family name was originally "Von Dinklestein" until they changed it to "Dinkley" in America. | |
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Molly of Denali applies this to a tree in "Big Sulky." Big Sulky's original name, Visokiy, means "tall one" in Russian. Visokiy was corrupted into "Big Sulky" by an English speaking settler who got the name from the Russians. | |
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Werewolf by Night: Jack's stepfather changed his last name from Russoff to Russell after moving from Romania to the United States. This caused Jack's own name to be Americanized as well: his original last name was also Russoff, because his stepfather is his late father's brother (a.k.a. his uncle). | |
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Radio Silence: Daniel's real name is Dae-sung. He changed it after being made fun of for it. | |
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In Vow of Nudity, Fiora's backstory involves growing up in a remote swiftstride clan in the barrens, changing her clan namenote “Lost Deer Among the Misty Pines� to Fiora when she entered Mixed Lands society. | |
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Conversations with My Father: Eddie Ross's original last name is Goldberg. | |
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Touhou – ZUN's Music Collection: Maribel Hearn is named after Lafcadio Hearn (see the Real Life section below), whose naturalised Japanese name Yakumo Koizumi is also the namesake of major character Yukari Yakumo. While ZUN is evasive on their exact connection, the two characters bear a heavy resemblance (both in appearance and abilities), and it's confirmed that Yukari has been known by other names in the past, strongly implying that Maribel's stories are a stealth Origins Episode. | |
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The protagonist of the Commander Keen series is named Billy Blaze. The manual notes that this is a naturalized name, and that the family name used to be Blazkowicz. | |
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Lead actors of The Vampire Diaries Nikolina Dobreva (Bulgarian) and Pawel Wasilewski (Polish) both had their names anglicized respectively as Nina Dobrev and Paul Wesley. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actor Siddig El Fadil changed his name to Alexander Siddig in 1995. On Deep Space Nine, his name was changed in the opening credits beginning in Season 4. | |
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In The Order (2007), Magdalena Marie was born Magdalena Marie Neuntauben. She dropped her surname because nobody could pronounce it properly and she got tired of having to explain to people how to pronounce it. | |
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BioShock's Andrew Ryan from the Russian "Andrei Rianofski". This is a reference to his Real Life inspiration, Ayn Rand, who was born Alisa Rosenbaum. | |
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In the English dub of Shaman King, the Ainu character Horohoro introduces himself as "Trey Racer". At first this appears to be a straight case of Dub Name Change, but then his sister shows up looking for him... Turns out that dub!Horohoro just finds his name embarassing and asks people to call him Trey because it sounds cooler. | |
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In Are You Dave Gorman, Dave and Danny go to America to meet a Dave Gorman. This particular Dave Gorman is Jewish, with Polish ancestry, and he theorises that an overworked immigration agent on Ellis Island couldn't get their head around his grandfather's name. | |
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The Jazz Singer is about a man named Jakie Rabinowitz who becomes a jazz singer who goes by the stage name "Jack Robin". | |
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In now that i can see your face (i can stand up to anything.), Shaggy's parents are Lebanese. They changed their surname from "Roshed" to "Rogers" after moving to America. | |
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In Something More Than Night, private eye Joh Devlin was born "Johan Dieffenbach", and the villainous Home family, owners of the sinister Home House, are descended from a German immigrant who changed his name from "Sigurd Heim". | |
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In The Lord of the Rings, Aragorn is first introduced in Bree by the disreputable-sounding alias of "Strider." In Gondor, he decides to use Strider as a surname, after applying an appropriate translation: "In the high tongue it will not sound so ill, and Telcontar I will be and all the heirs of my body." | |
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Shows up a few times in James Clavell's Asian Saga: In Shogun, ship's pilot Blackthorne is given the name "Anjin" (meaning "Pilot" in Japanese) because the Japanese have difficulty pronouncing "Blackthorne" (the Japanese specifically point out that it is not meant as an insult); meanwhile Japanese Christians are given Christian names when they covert. In Gai-Jin a Frenchman living in Japan is called "Furansu-san" for the same reason as Blackthorne. In Noble House American businesswoman K.C. Tcholok mentions that her last name was shortened from "Tcholokian" by her Armenian grandparents. K.C. also goes by the more Anglo-sounding "Casey" (derived from her initials) than her birth-names Kamalian Ciranoush. |
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In the Murdoch Mysteries episode "Election Day", a German-born resident gives his name as "John Smith". Government agent Terrence Myers speaks German to him, and when the man replies in the same language, Myers challenges him on his "real name". The man says his name was "Johannes Schmidt" and he changed it because other Canadians had trouble pronouncing it. | |
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In Madwoman of the Sacred Heart, Alan Mangel was born Alan Mangelowski. He changed his name in order to cut ties with his father. | |
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Law & Order: Connie Rubirosa. She goes by Connie because it is a shortened Anglican-sounding version of her full name, Consuela. | |
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In the Kim Possible fanfic REUNION (G-Go) Ron Stoppable mentions his great-grandfather Nicholai, who was so determined to emigrate to America that, when he arrived at Ellis Island, he shouted, "I am Nicholai! I am unstoppable!" The clerk wrote his name down as "N. Stoppable". | |
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In Animorphs, Elfangor (an alien) takes the human name Alan (Al) Fangor. His brother Aximili uses the nickname "Ax", though he's also called by his real name when there are no Controllers or Muggles around. Visser Three doesn't even bother, just calling his human morph "Mr. Visser".note To be fair, Visser is a real Dutch surname, but it's unlikely he knew that. | |
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Parodied in Robots; Fender says his name was "Bumper" before moving into the country. | |
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In Harukana Receive, Emily and Claire Thomas are respectively known under kanji names Emiri and Kurea among the Japanese, but their family name, Thomas, remains unchanged. | |
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In the backstory of Gabriel Knight, when Gabriel's grandfather Heinz Ritter moved from Germany to the United States, he legally changed his name to Harrison Knight (a straight translation). | |
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In Back to the Future Part III, Doc Brown mentions that his family emigrated from Germany as the "Von Brauns". They changed it to "Brown" to dodge racist backlash when World War I started. | |
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In Top 10, Jeff Smax was raised as Jaafs Macksun, which was itself a naturalized name, since his biological parents never actually named him or his sister. When he left his homeworld and moved to Neopolis, he changed his name so that nobody would know where he came from, as he is deeply embarrassed about coming from a "backwoods" dimension. | |
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In The Snarkout Boys and the Baconburg Horror, there's a character named Gus Bowlingpin. His ancestors were the Baulongpinskis, who changed their name upon coming to America from Romania. | |
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The Forgotten City: The city tailor is actually named Georgios, but in the long tradition of the Romans re-naming everything Greek, (to this particular Greek's annoyance) he's referred to as Georgius. | |
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Superman & Lois: Lana Lang's husband Kyle Cushing is Latino, and it's eventually explained his father changed their last name from Cortez, fearing bigotry in Smallville otherwise. | |
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In Shanghai Noon Jackie Chan's character is named "Chon Wang", but every American just calls him by the closest they can manage: John Wayne. | |
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In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind, the protagonist was born Haruno Shiobana from a Japanese mother. After she married an Italian man, the latter renamed his stepson Giorno Giovanna. | |
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The titular Jorge Joestar - originally called George, but goes by Jorge living on the Spanish island of La Palma. | |
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The father of Icelandic singer EmilÃana Torrini (of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers fame), an Italian man named Salvatore Torrini, was forced to change his name to "DavÃð EirÃksson" upon immigration to Iceland due to the country's strict naming laws. This meant as well that his daughter was named at birth "EmilÃana DavÃðsdóttir" to comply with the Patronymic system. Upon a reform of the naming laws in 1991, father and daughter were allowed to retake their Italian surname. | |
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Touhou Project: While a number of the series's cast fall under I Have Many Names, explicitly naturalised names mostly come up in two contexts: Touhou Eiyashou ~ Imperishable Night: For Reisen Udongein Inaba, 鈴仙 (rei sen) is a naturalised Japanese spelling of the name she had on the moon, while Udongein and Inaba are "Earth-style names" given to her by Eirin and Kaguya respectively (though "Inaba" is conspicuously spelled phonetically as イナãƒ�, rather than using the spelling of the å› å¹¡ province as with Tewi's surname). As the original spelling is still used occasionally by moon-dwelling characters (one of whom is even named after her), fans sometimes transcribe it as things like "Raysen" to make the distinction more clear. It's also confirmed that è¼�夜 is not the spelling of Kaguya's name that the princess used while living on the moon, but one that was given to her by her adoptive parents in the events of The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. Unlike Reisen, this rarely ever comes up. Touhou Bougetsushou reveals that some Lunarians, including Eirin and the Chinese goddess Chang'e, have true names which can only be pronounced by the spiritually untainted, requiring them to adopt pseudonyms for use with Earthlings (though "Yagokoro" is still Eirin's original surname). This is part of the evidence that Eirin is actually Omoikane. Touhou – ZUN's Music Collection: Maribel Hearn is named after Lafcadio Hearn (see the Real Life section below), whose naturalised Japanese name Yakumo Koizumi is also the namesake of major character Yukari Yakumo. While ZUN is evasive on their exact connection, the two characters bear a heavy resemblance (both in appearance and abilities), and it's confirmed that Yukari has been known by other names in the past, strongly implying that Maribel's stories are a stealth Origins Episode. |
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In Party of Five (2020), Mexican-American Valentina Acosta adopts the name "Amanda Davis" after joining a largely-white dance class. | |
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Ender's Game: Ender's own father is a first-generation Polish immigrant to America. Their family name "Wiggin" is a naturalized (by Random Name Change) form of "Wieczorek", a common Polish surname, although most Polish immigrants turn it into "Wiggins" instead. | |
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The Untouchables (1987): George Stone's birth name is Giuseppe Petri, almost a direct translation ("Petri" is close to pietre, Italian for "stones", but Giuseppe's English equivalent is traditionally Joseph, not George). | |
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In Feet of Clay, it's briefly mentioned that Cheery Littlebottom's surname in Dwarfish is actually "Sh'rt'azs". Presumably, the same goes for other Morporkian dwarf names. | |
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A recurring skit in Goodness Gracious Me involves two The Whitest Black Guy families: the Coopers, who were originally the Kapoors, and their neighbors the Robinsons, originally Rabindranaths. They get very offended if anyone uses their original names. | |
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In Carol, after Carol remarks about how unique Therese's surname Belivet is, Therese explains that it was actually changed from a Czech surname, but Carol interrupts her before she can say what her original surname was. | |
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In Timeless, Denise Christopher's real name is Dhriti Siristavana. When she became a cop, she adopted a more "American" name to cut ties with her disapproving traditional family. | |
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M'gann from Young Justice is a Martian. She is constantly trying to get her friends to call her "Megan" but they still almost always use "M'gann" unless she's disguised as a human. | |
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In Destiny (Afterandalasia), Lily can't remember her birth name from before she was forced into an American boarding school. She knows it wasn't in English but likes to think it was something exotic like "Tiger Lily". | |
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A Study of Murder by Robert Ryan. Dr. Watson is an inmate in a German POW camp, and is told that escapees have been sending a postcard from the Coburg Hotel in London to let their colleagues know they've arrived safely. Watson smells a rat because he knows the Coburg has been renamed to the less German-sounding "Connaught". | |
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Assassin's Creed III: Norris (a French-speaking Canadian) reveals his real name is Maurice but that he changed it because no one in the American colonies could pronounce it properly. The protagonist himself uses Connor instead of his birth name (Ratonhnhaké:ton) due to the racism people of that time had against natives. |
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In The Punisher, it was established very early that Frank Castle's original surname was "Castiglione" — his Italian immigrant parents changed it when he was a child for whatever reason. By happy coincidence, "castigare" is a latin word for "punishment", though in a disciplinary sense. You won't get much moral improvement out of Frank's victims. | |
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Karma of the New Mutants was born Manh Cao Xuan, but was incorrectly called Xi'an Coy Manh for years because of a mix-up during her immigration to America. Her friends had long called her "Shan" for short. | |
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A minor example in Underworld (2003), where Michael Corvin is a descendant of a Hungarian warlord named Alexander Corvinus. The novelization mentions that Corvin's grandfather dropped the "us" after moving to America. | |
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Boardwalk Empire: Mickey Doyle's original name is Mieczyslaw Kuzik. He's actually Polish, but likes the Irish name because he thinks it sounds better. | |
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An American Tail is about Jewish-Russian Funny Animal mice who move to America in the 1880s. Tanya was given an "American name" of "Tillie" and Fievel was given the name "Phillie" at the start of the film. Neither of them use the names. A human immigrant is renamed "Smith" by an immigration official on Ellis Island. | |
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In Yasuke, Oda Nobunaga struggled to remember Yasuke's birth name and gave him his new Japanese name (based on the fact that he heard Yasuke is from the 'Yao People'). This is based on one origin theory of the real-life Yasuke's name (more on this below on the Real Life section). | |
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Superman Both Superman and Supergirl are Kryptonians. Superman's birth name is "Kal-El" but he was raised as "Clark" by his human family. Pre-Crisis Supergirl used "Linda Danvers" as her Secret Identity but more modern depictions typically avert this trope and have her use her name, Kara, instead. In Just Imagine: Superman, the alien Salden adopts the name Clark Kent after becoming stranded on Earth. Superman Smashes the Klan: Chinese-American Roberta Lee's Chinese name is Lan-Shin, in keeping with the Superman supporting cast's Theme Initials of LL. At the end of the story, she starts going by Lan-Shin again at Lois's suggestion. |
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In Asterios Polyp, it's mentioned that Asterios's... distinctive last name is a result of his father's original Greek surname being shortened by an immigration official who didn't want to deal with the full thing. Even better, Asterios's father was a doctor, making it something of an ironic name to have. | |
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Elemental (2023): Upon their arrival to Element City, Ember's parents were given the names "Bernie and Cinder" as the immigration officer couldn't make heads or tails of their Firish names. | |
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In Just Imagine: Superman, the alien Salden adopts the name Clark Kent after becoming stranded on Earth. | |
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On ER the Chinese-American Dr. Jing-Mei Chen uses the given name "Deb" when she's introduced in Season 1. Her actual name isn't revealed until she returns in Season 6. | |
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Largo Winch was born Largo Winczlav in Yugoslavia. The first novel and the spin-off The Fortune Of The Winczlav reveals that Milan Winczlav, granfather of Nerio Winch (Largo's distant relative and adoptive father), was the first one to change his name. | |
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John Carter of Mars: In A Princess of Mars, after John Carter kills the Tharks Dotar and Sojat in combat, he is given their names as part of the spoils of combat, which he uses as his Barsoomian name. In a later book, Ulysses S. Paxton is christened "Vad Varo" after arriving on Barsoom. | |
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In Dr. Strangelove, the titular character is a German immigrant. When General Turgidson mentions that the name "Strangelove" doesn't really sound German, another character reveals that it was originally "Merkwürdigliebe" (literally means "strange love"), but he anglicized it after moving to the US. | |
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In Fire Emblem: Three Houses, it was going to be revealed that Claude's real name wasn't Claude, but actually Khalid. The developers stated that this reveal never happened because they couldn't figure out a good place for it to happen naturally. They were eventually able to work in this reveal in the spinoff game Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes where his real name is a plot point. | |
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Ashfall: Kang Bong-rae goes by "Robert" abroad. When he decides to move back to Korea at the end he and Yoo-kyung agree to refer to him by his Korean name instead. | |
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In The Demon Girl Next Door, a middle-easterner named Joshua (pronounced "Yoshua") adopts the Japanese name Yoshida as a disguise. | |
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Family Guy: After Mr. Weed is invited to dinner by Peter in "Mr. Saturday Knight", he tells Brian that his grandfather changed the family name at Ellis Island from "Bermudagrass". In "Family Goy", when Lois finds out she's Jewish, her mom reveals that Grandma Hebrewberg's family changed their name from "Hebrewbergmoneygrabber" when they arrived in America. |
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Bodies (2023): Karl Weissman now goes by Charles Whiteman to be less obviously Jewish during The Blitz. His antisemitic superior refers to him as "Weissman" anyway. | |
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Watchmen (2019): William Reeves's full birth name is never revealed, but his last name may have been Robeson (his mother's maiden name.) After his parents were murdered, he adopted the surname "Reeves" after his childhood hero, Bass Reeves. Angela Abar's last name is her grandmother's maiden name; her father took the maiden name after he and his mother left his father. Laurie Juspeczyck adopted the name Laurie Blake (her biological father's surname) because none of her colleagues at the FBI could pronounce "Juspeczyck". |
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In 1923, the Natives have been given Anglicized names. One of them, a shepherd that helps Teonna Rainwater, says that he chose his name as "Hank" because on the day that the government was registering the names most of the other Native men were choosing "John" or "George" and he wanted something different. | |
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In Desert Gold, Trisha Elric is an Ishavalan named Hadiya and her family line is Elrikh. Her sons are named Zahir and Imad, better known as Edward and Alphonse. | |
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In some continuities, Catwoman's family changed their names from Kelowski to Kyle. | |
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Frasier: Frasier tried to convince his boss not to fire him and his coworkers with a speech about integrity. It backfires when it convinces him to change the station's format to Latin radio. | |
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In the Friends episode "The One with the Fake Monica", Joey Tribbiani decides to change his name to something less ethnic. Chandler jokingly suggests "Joseph Stalin". Being The Ditz, Joey doesn't know how infamous this name is and tries to use it. Apparently he doesn't learn from this, as the episode's Stinger is of Joey going onstage and introducing himself as "Holden McGroin". | |
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In Psycho-Pass, the Sibyl System requires immigrants to Japan to adopt a Japanese first name, the most notable example being main character Kei Mikhail Ignatov. | |
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Jeffrey Mace, the third Captain America, is of Russian Jewish descent. His family used to have the surname Masalsky, but changed it when they arrived in America. | |
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Cold Case: Scott Valens. His family name is a shortened version of Valensuela. One Villain of the Week was a Puerto Rican Dirty Cop with the last name Martin (shortened Martinez). Another Villain of the Week was from a Jewish family who changed their name from Weissman to Whitman so they could rise in high society. |
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In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Ensign Ro", Ro Laren explains that some Bajorans switch their name order to the Anglosphere's given name-then-surname when dealing with offworlders. She very pointedly prefers to be addressed in the Bajoran style, however. | |
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