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* ''Film/TheBlueLagoon1980'' has the KissingCousins' baby named Paddy, which is a carryover from the [[Film/TheBlueLagoon1949 1949 film]] [[TheFilmOfTheBook based on]] [[Literature/TheBlueLagoon the same book]][[note]]In the original book, the cousins' baby is named Hannah[[/note]].
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* Any genre named "New [something]":
** ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_nova Ars Nova]]'', literally "[[TheNewRockAndRoll New Art]]," is the name that was given to a style of music that was developed in the early 14th century, to distinguish it from the earlier Medieval ''Ars Antiqua''. The "''Ars Nova''" label stuck among music scholars to the present day, despite not having been anything like "new" for about [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld 700 years]] now.
** Bossa Nova means "new beat" in Portuguese, but it hasn't been new since the 1960s.
** New Age Music is more of a marketing term. Very few artists labelled as "New Age" actually have any connection to "NewAge" religions. Some of them even reject the label and propose replacements like "Folk Ambient" or "Instrumental Chillout".
*** The name came from the attention given to some of its early stars--Andreas Vollenweider, Kitaro, and the Windham Hill artists--in the pages of ''New Age Journal''.
** {{New Wave|Music}} peaked in the 1980s and certainly isn't new anymore. It is also worth noting that the term was used in the UK to refer to guitar-led pop music that wasn't punk, while in the US it was used to refer to groups that the UK would call synthpop.
* AlternativeRock used to be a less-known alternative for the more mainstream sounds at the time of their origin. Nowadays it's the dominant form of rock, and the name is pretty much synonymous with "modern rock." As with "indie" mentioned below, the term reflected these artists being released on independent record labels and played on CollegeRadio, but with alternative's mainstream breakthrough in TheNineties, "alternative" is more an aesthetic than anything else.
* Much mainstream "CountryMusic" is contemporary pop or rock with a steel guitar and a singer with a twang. There's still a few successful artists that adhere to a more traditional sound, though.
** The very genre name "country music" has been a bit of a misnomer for a while now, since after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the big, sophisticated city of UsefulNotes/{{Nashville}} became the genre's permanent home base.
** Very few these days refer to Country and Western music. Mostly those who would use the old saying, "I like both kinds of music, Country and Western."
* {{Dubstep}} got its name after "Dub", an offshoot of {{Reggae}} known for its emphasis on various studio effects (most notably reverb) as well as the bass, and "2-step", a subgenre of UK Garage that eschews the four-on-the-floor rhythm in favor of a more jittery, irregular beat. While [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GdFXT-2XnI early dubstep tracks]] fits this name well, the "-step" part gradually became obsolete as producers leaned towards half-time beats (half the tempo of regular 2-step) and put more emphasis on "dub-" (sparse, reverb- and bass-heavy sound) [[note]]listen to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEJG9L-n_tE this example]] and compare to the previous one[[/note]]. Eventually, the "dub-" part also became obsolete, as the genre drew influence from HeavyMetal and PostHardcore and became much more aggressive and noisy (what many people today think of as "dubstep" was after this transition), to the point where many old fans would much rather call the new sound a completely different name (such as brostep or filthstep).
* Music/{{Emo}}. Originally used to refer to a less violent and confrontational, more personal type of hardcore punk that was emerging in Washington, D.C. in the 80s, the term is derived from "emocore", which itself was short for "emotional hardcore". Today, "emo" is used to describe a type of music that is barely distinguishable from pop-punk, and the fashion style and the association with any mental state other than "constantly happy". It is notable that some modern-day fans who [[OlderThanTheyThink don't know the history of the genre]] mistakenly believe it's short for simply "emotional".
* Funk carioca sounds almost nothing like traditional funk. Thing is, back in the 1970s, funk and soul were hugely popular in Rio's favelas. But as a new music style[[note]]derived from Miami bass, Latin freestyle, and gangsta rap[[/note]] grew popular and supplanted it, people kept calling the parties "funk balls".
* HeavyMetal changed drastically after Music/VanHalen and the NewWaveOfBritishHeavyMetal. Early 70's bands such as Music/UriahHeep, Mountain, and Music/AliceCooper were considered to be HeavyMetal bands, but the term has changed to mean something different than what these bands sounded like. Today they're usually counted as HardRock.
** The earliest metal bands like Music/BlackSabbath used various tempos including slow tempos. Later they started down-tuning instruments to create music that often felt slow and heavy, so the name "heavy metal" fit. However, subsequent sub-genres would progressively ramp up the speed, and many did not down-tune, to the point where it wasn't so slow and "heavy" anymore. Simply using "metal" as an umbrella term to refer to all sub-genres alleviates this somewhat, but even that word alone carries connotations of being slow and heavy that doesn't necessarily apply to all metal genres.
** For that matter, the same thing happened to PowerMetal (the original name for speed metal, now the name for a style that tends to focus on dramatic instrumentation, fantasy themes, and symphonic elements) and ThrashMetal (which used to mean progressive speed metal with clean vocals, whereas the modern equivalent is often closer to '80s death metal).
** From an instrumental standpoint, most MelodicDeathMetal has more in common with PowerMetal, ThrashMetal, and/or the NewWaveOfBritishHeavyMetal than DeathMetal these days. The HarshVocals are usually closer to the high-pitched rasps and shrieks of BlackMetal, too (although some bands still use death metal-style growls).
* Indie: Even when the band is on a major label, their genre is still short for 'independent'. (However, "indie rock" can also be used to denote a genre, specifically a lo-fi and mellow strain of alternative rock.)
* Pop: These days if a ballad is released without any rock overtones, country twang, or heavy soul influence, it's pop music, regardless of whether it is "popular" or not.
* Pop [insert-genre-here] ends up sounding more pop than that genre. Fast.
* ProgressiveRock originally got its name from the "progressive" FM radio stations it was played on in the U.S. These were so-called because the [=DJs=] would, between playing the bands' latest ''magna opera'', spend almost as much time as the songs themselves took to discuss politics from a progressive (i.e., very leftist) perspective. The name for the subgenre has remained even as the stations became increasingly all about the music, and even as FM radio of the early 1970s evolved into today's classic-rock format.
* In the '60s, RAndB music stood for rhythm & blues music and was often applied to blues rock groups. Over the decades, it evolved into its present term: soul-influenced pop music. This has had the controversial side-effect of labeling (and pigeonholing) all black pop singers as R&B even if soul isn't their style.
* Rock-n-Roll initially referred to what we would call "pop music" today: music that's popular with young people. But over the years, rock became its own distinct genre. This has led to pedantic whining whenever discussions of rock-n-roll include pop, R&B, hip-hop, EDM, and so on, such as when artists from these genres are inducted into the Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame. Their inclusion is true to the ''original'' definition of rock-n-roll rather than how rock is defined now.
* TrapMusic got its name after "trap houses", which in Atlanta slang mean places where drugs are manufactured and/or sold. As the genre exploded in popularity worldwide in the 2010s, the drug connotation is gradually diluted.
** ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_nova Ars Nova]]'', literally "[[TheNewRockAndRoll New Art]]," is the name that was given to a style of music that was developed in the early 14th century, to distinguish it from the earlier Medieval ''Ars Antiqua''. The "''Ars Nova''" label stuck among music scholars to the present day, despite not having been anything like "new" for about [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld 700 years]] now.
** Bossa Nova means "new beat" in Portuguese, but it hasn't been new since the 1960s.
** New Age Music is more of a marketing term. Very few artists labelled as "New Age" actually have any connection to "NewAge" religions. Some of them even reject the label and propose replacements like "Folk Ambient" or "Instrumental Chillout".
*** The name came from the attention given to some of its early stars--Andreas Vollenweider, Kitaro, and the Windham Hill artists--in the pages of ''New Age Journal''.
** {{New Wave|Music}} peaked in the 1980s and certainly isn't new anymore. It is also worth noting that the term was used in the UK to refer to guitar-led pop music that wasn't punk, while in the US it was used to refer to groups that the UK would call synthpop.
* AlternativeRock used to be a less-known alternative for the more mainstream sounds at the time of their origin. Nowadays it's the dominant form of rock, and the name is pretty much synonymous with "modern rock." As with "indie" mentioned below, the term reflected these artists being released on independent record labels and played on CollegeRadio, but with alternative's mainstream breakthrough in TheNineties, "alternative" is more an aesthetic than anything else.
* Much mainstream "CountryMusic" is contemporary pop or rock with a steel guitar and a singer with a twang. There's still a few successful artists that adhere to a more traditional sound, though.
** The very genre name "country music" has been a bit of a misnomer for a while now, since after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the big, sophisticated city of UsefulNotes/{{Nashville}} became the genre's permanent home base.
** Very few these days refer to Country and Western music. Mostly those who would use the old saying, "I like both kinds of music, Country and Western."
* {{Dubstep}} got its name after "Dub", an offshoot of {{Reggae}} known for its emphasis on various studio effects (most notably reverb) as well as the bass, and "2-step", a subgenre of UK Garage that eschews the four-on-the-floor rhythm in favor of a more jittery, irregular beat. While [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GdFXT-2XnI early dubstep tracks]] fits this name well, the "-step" part gradually became obsolete as producers leaned towards half-time beats (half the tempo of regular 2-step) and put more emphasis on "dub-" (sparse, reverb- and bass-heavy sound) [[note]]listen to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEJG9L-n_tE this example]] and compare to the previous one[[/note]]. Eventually, the "dub-" part also became obsolete, as the genre drew influence from HeavyMetal and PostHardcore and became much more aggressive and noisy (what many people today think of as "dubstep" was after this transition), to the point where many old fans would much rather call the new sound a completely different name (such as brostep or filthstep).
* Music/{{Emo}}. Originally used to refer to a less violent and confrontational, more personal type of hardcore punk that was emerging in Washington, D.C. in the 80s, the term is derived from "emocore", which itself was short for "emotional hardcore". Today, "emo" is used to describe a type of music that is barely distinguishable from pop-punk, and the fashion style and the association with any mental state other than "constantly happy". It is notable that some modern-day fans who [[OlderThanTheyThink don't know the history of the genre]] mistakenly believe it's short for simply "emotional".
* Funk carioca sounds almost nothing like traditional funk. Thing is, back in the 1970s, funk and soul were hugely popular in Rio's favelas. But as a new music style[[note]]derived from Miami bass, Latin freestyle, and gangsta rap[[/note]] grew popular and supplanted it, people kept calling the parties "funk balls".
* HeavyMetal changed drastically after Music/VanHalen and the NewWaveOfBritishHeavyMetal. Early 70's bands such as Music/UriahHeep, Mountain, and Music/AliceCooper were considered to be HeavyMetal bands, but the term has changed to mean something different than what these bands sounded like. Today they're usually counted as HardRock.
** The earliest metal bands like Music/BlackSabbath used various tempos including slow tempos. Later they started down-tuning instruments to create music that often felt slow and heavy, so the name "heavy metal" fit. However, subsequent sub-genres would progressively ramp up the speed, and many did not down-tune, to the point where it wasn't so slow and "heavy" anymore. Simply using "metal" as an umbrella term to refer to all sub-genres alleviates this somewhat, but even that word alone carries connotations of being slow and heavy that doesn't necessarily apply to all metal genres.
** For that matter, the same thing happened to PowerMetal (the original name for speed metal, now the name for a style that tends to focus on dramatic instrumentation, fantasy themes, and symphonic elements) and ThrashMetal (which used to mean progressive speed metal with clean vocals, whereas the modern equivalent is often closer to '80s death metal).
** From an instrumental standpoint, most MelodicDeathMetal has more in common with PowerMetal, ThrashMetal, and/or the NewWaveOfBritishHeavyMetal than DeathMetal these days. The HarshVocals are usually closer to the high-pitched rasps and shrieks of BlackMetal, too (although some bands still use death metal-style growls).
* Indie: Even when the band is on a major label, their genre is still short for 'independent'. (However, "indie rock" can also be used to denote a genre, specifically a lo-fi and mellow strain of alternative rock.)
* Pop: These days if a ballad is released without any rock overtones, country twang, or heavy soul influence, it's pop music, regardless of whether it is "popular" or not.
* Pop [insert-genre-here] ends up sounding more pop than that genre. Fast.
* ProgressiveRock originally got its name from the "progressive" FM radio stations it was played on in the U.S. These were so-called because the [=DJs=] would, between playing the bands' latest ''magna opera'', spend almost as much time as the songs themselves took to discuss politics from a progressive (i.e., very leftist) perspective. The name for the subgenre has remained even as the stations became increasingly all about the music, and even as FM radio of the early 1970s evolved into today's classic-rock format.
* In the '60s, RAndB music stood for rhythm & blues music and was often applied to blues rock groups. Over the decades, it evolved into its present term: soul-influenced pop music. This has had the controversial side-effect of labeling (and pigeonholing) all black pop singers as R&B even if soul isn't their style.
* Rock-n-Roll initially referred to what we would call "pop music" today: music that's popular with young people. But over the years, rock became its own distinct genre. This has led to pedantic whining whenever discussions of rock-n-roll include pop, R&B, hip-hop, EDM, and so on, such as when artists from these genres are inducted into the Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame. Their inclusion is true to the ''original'' definition of rock-n-roll rather than how rock is defined now.
* TrapMusic got its name after "trap houses", which in Atlanta slang mean places where drugs are manufactured and/or sold. As the genre exploded in popularity worldwide in the 2010s, the drug connotation is gradually diluted.
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* Pretty much any band of youngsters identified as "boys", "girls" (maybe less so), or "kids" (i.e. Music/BackstreetBoys, Music/TheBeachBoys, Music/NewKidsOnTheBlock) where the members have grown up automatically becomes this. It happened to Music/SonicYouth long before their hiatus and will apply to Youth Group (whose biggest hit to date is a cover of Alphaville's "Forever Young") if they ever emerge from their own hiatus.
** Sixty-something soft-rock duo George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam are still mostly known as Music/BoyMeetsGirl.
* Occasionally, a musician from a band that has broken up will join a new band, and that band will use the old band's name to take advantage of the name recognition and/or record contract. Happened notably with Music/{{Scorpions|Band}} in the early 1970s and Music/AliceInChains[[note]]Lead singer Layne Staley was originally part of a HairMetal band called "Alice N' Chains". When he later formed a new band, he adopted the former name with some minor changes[[/note]] in the late 1980s.
* Some Chilean bands had one more member than the title suggest because the last member joined shortly after the original inception and [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg the rest weren't too keen to change it]]:
** "Banana 5" are 6 members
** "Los cuatro cuartos" (The four quarters) are 5 members.
** "Los Tres" (The three) were 4 members.
* The Russian band 5sta Family (originally spelled 5ivesta Family) started out with five members: [=CoolB=], V-kes, Tony, Loya, and Sandrik. Shortly before the band's rise to popularity, Tony and Sandrik left, and the band has been a trio ever since.
* Music/TheAllmanBrothersBand, after the death of Duane Allman in a 1971 motorcycle accident, only had one Allman Brother. Since Gregg Allman died in 2017, any reunion under that name would be even more of an artifact--in fact, a reunion band of assorted surviving members have simply called themselves "The Brothers".
* The last time Average White Band (of "Pick Up the Pieces" fame) had an all-white line-up was in 1974, before their breakthrough album ''AWB''.
* Country music duo Baillie & the Boys had only one "boy" in it after Alan [=LaBoeuf=] left in 1990, leaving just the [[CreatorCouple husband-and-wife duo]] of Kathie Baillie and Michael Bonagura (as pictured on that year's ''The Lights of Home''). This name remained until [=LaBoeuf=] rejoined in 1998 (although Lance Hoppen and Roger [=McVay=] substituted in concerts until then).
* Minor example/possible aversion: Music/{{Blondie|band}} was so named because there were two other blonde singers present for their early rehearsals, [[ThePeteBest both of whom left before they ever played live or recorded anything]]. This has resulted in a lot of IAmNotShazam moments for the remaining blonde singer Debbie Harry.
* Music/TheChemicalBrothers were originally The Dust Brothers before the American production duo of that name (Music/{{Beck|Musician}}, Music/{{Hanson}}) threatened legal action. Their first album is called ''Exit Planet Dust'' in reference to this. The song "In Dust We Trust" retained its title even though it was no longer self-referential.
* Country Joe & The Fish, best known today for the protest song "I Feel Like I'm Fixing to Die Rag", were originally a duo of Joe [=McDonald=] and Barry "The Fish" Melton. They kept the name even as they added others as full members.
* An interesting example comes in the form of punk band Dillinger Four. Their name was originally The Young Dillingers after a name they saw in a record sleeve under the Thank You list. When it turned out to be the name of a local gang they changed it Dillinger Four. At the time of naming, they only had three members so it was just a silly joke. Then they added a second guitarist and the joke just sort of became a normal name.
* Well-known New York rapper Fat Joe lived up to his name in his early days, but after the death of his close friend and frequent collaborator Music/BigPun in 2000 from complications stemming from obesity, Fat Joe began to take controlling his weight seriously and later took on an impressive weight loss journey. Though he is still larger than the average man, it would be a gigantic stretch to claim that he is still 'fat' as a point of notoriety.
* Music/{{Five}} are a bizarre version. The two members that made the band famous (J and Abs) refused to take part in their reunion, thus rendering it a three-person band still named Five.
* GRIMMS were a pop/comedy band formed in 1971 by members of the Scaffold, the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, and the Liverpool Scene; the band's name was formed from the initials of original core band members John Gorman, Andy Roberts, [[Music/TheRutles Neil Innes]], Mike [=McGear=] (Music/PaulMcCartney's brother), Roger [=McGough=], and Vivian Stanshall. However, Stanshall left the band in 1972 and [=McGear=] followed a year later so that only four of the members referred to in the band name were left in the band by their breakup in 1976; moreover, after their first two performances, the band expanded to include many additional members not referenced in their name.[[note]] Nine, to be exact, though not all at once. Adrian Henri, Brian Patten, Michael Giles, John Megginson, and George Money contributed to the first album, ''Grimms''; Henri, Giles, and Money left in 1973 and were replaced by David Richards, Peter Halsall, and Gerry Conway for the second album, ''Rockin' Duck'', while Patten left in 1974 and Halsall and Conway left in 1975 to be replaced by Timmy Donnell for the third album, ''Sleepers''.[[/note]]
* Music/GunsNRoses is named after Tracii Guns and Axl Rose. [[ThePeteBest The former]] was fired by [[IAmTheBand the latter]] after missing rehearsals a mere two months into the band's existence, being replaced by Slash.
* Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds was a soft rock trio composed of Dan Hamilton, Joe Frank Carollo, and Tommy Reynolds. The group continued to use its original name even after Reynolds was replaced by Alan Dennison.
* Russian rave band Music/LittleBig started out as a quartet with included two little women (hence, the name reflected the contrast in size between the members of the band). As of 2018, both have left and no new little people joined the band, yet the name remains.
* The Mandarins were founded in 1963 as an all-Asian drum and bugle corps. Today, corps membership comes from all ethnic groups.
* When Music/Maroon5's keyboardist Jesse Carmichael took a leave of absence from the band in 2012, the band replaced him with P.J. Morton. Carmichael returned to the band after two years, but Morton remained, meaning that Maroon 5 became a six-piece, now a seven-piece following touring guitarist Sam Farrar promoted to being an official member.
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Boys_Choir The Miami Boys Choir]], an Orthodox Jewish pop group, moved to New York in its first few years, but never changed its name.
* [[Music/{{Slowdive}} Mojave 3]] only remained a trio for a mere two years before they were joined by two other members.
* GothRock band Mono Inc. were named for their original lead singer, Miky Mono, who left the band in 2006 and died in a paragliding accident in 2010.
* Creator/{{Motown}} Records, named after Detroit's nickname "Motor City", hasn't been based in Detroit since 1972. It's now headquartered in Los Angeles.
* [[http://www.omggband.com/omgg.cfm OMGG]], a bluegrass band particularly notable for the fact that its bandmembers have all been playing since they were quite young - the name stands for "Obviously Minor Guys and a Girl". The oldest already isn't particularly "obviously" minor, and soon enough none of them will be.
* The R&B and disco duo Peaches & Herb, originally consisting of Francine "Peaches" Hurd Barker, who adopted her childhood nickname for her music career, and Herb Fame. When Francine retired from the band as a live performer in 1968 and altogether in 1970, Herb would continue the group with other female vocalists adopting the "Peaches" name despite their lack of a personal connection to it. "Shake Your Groove Thing", the duo's biggest hit, was recorded with Linda Greene as the band's third Peaches.
* Music/ThePianoGuys primarily do piano and cello duets, but they were named after a piano shop. A few songs have just the cello without any piano at all.
* This might be the best way to explain the stage name of singer Music/{{Pink}}. When she first started, she actually had [[http://images.contactmusic.com/videoimages/sbmg/pnk-there-you-go.jpg pink hair]]. However, as time has gone by, she has changed it to blonde. Although, she says her stage name came from Mr. Pink in ''Film/ReservoirDogs'', so it's possible that the hair was only dyed pink to explain the name, instead of the name coming from her hair.
* Music/PizzicatoFive did start out as a band with five members, but that lineup didn't last long. They were a three-piece group when they got their BreakthroughHit, and for most of the period of their greatest international success, they were a duo.
* The Pointer Sisters kept the name even though the two of the sisters have been replaced by [[BandOfRelatives the daughter and granddaughter of the remaining sister]], none of whom legally have the surname "Pointer" but both perform with that surname.
* Secret Chiefs 3 started out as a trio but kept the "3" in the name once they became [[IAmTheBand Trey Spruance and a usually much larger, revolving-door lineup]].
* The "classic" Emo[[note]]In its original definition, see the entry above[[/note]] band Sleepytime Trio started out as a trio, but added a fourth member not too long after formation, and were a four-piece for almost their entire existence, yet they kept the name anyway.
* Music/SnoopDogg's stage name derives from Snoopy, a cartoon dog. When he briefly changed his name to Snoop Lion, the "Snoop" part became an artifact.
* Space Twins were originally a duo consisting of [[{{Music/Weezer}} Brian Bell]] and Susan Fox, who would dress up in ''Franchise/StarTrek''-inspired uniforms and pipe-cleaner antennae and perform for children's birthday parties. First they dropped the costumes and became a trio, then expanded further into a quartet. Though the "space" part of their name started making sense in a less literal way when they started incorporating more PsychedelicRock influences.
* SSQ were named for their lead singer Stacey Swain, who went by the stage name Stacey Q. They continued using the SSQ name [[TheBandMinusTheFace after she split with them]], though [[ZigzaggedTrope she has recently rejoined the group]].
* Subverted by the Thompson Twins. A trio at the height of their popularity (they had anywhere from four to six members in their early years), they became a duo after bassist Joe Leeway left.
* Music/{{TLC}}'s name became this following Left Eye's 2002 death.
* Japanese PowerMetal band Music/{{Versailles}} found out when they tried to perform in the US that there was already an American band named "Versailles" and changed their name to Versailles Philharmonic Quintet--a name which became awkwardly inappropriate after bassist Jasmine You's sudden death in 2009. While promoting their second album, they [[http://i46.tinypic.com/25umkg1.jpg continued to use]] the Versailles Philharmonic Quintet name despite only having four members. The name became accurate again when support bassist Masashi joined the band proper in late 2010.
** Sixty-something soft-rock duo George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam are still mostly known as Music/BoyMeetsGirl.
* Occasionally, a musician from a band that has broken up will join a new band, and that band will use the old band's name to take advantage of the name recognition and/or record contract. Happened notably with Music/{{Scorpions|Band}} in the early 1970s and Music/AliceInChains[[note]]Lead singer Layne Staley was originally part of a HairMetal band called "Alice N' Chains". When he later formed a new band, he adopted the former name with some minor changes[[/note]] in the late 1980s.
* Some Chilean bands had one more member than the title suggest because the last member joined shortly after the original inception and [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg the rest weren't too keen to change it]]:
** "Banana 5" are 6 members
** "Los cuatro cuartos" (The four quarters) are 5 members.
** "Los Tres" (The three) were 4 members.
* The Russian band 5sta Family (originally spelled 5ivesta Family) started out with five members: [=CoolB=], V-kes, Tony, Loya, and Sandrik. Shortly before the band's rise to popularity, Tony and Sandrik left, and the band has been a trio ever since.
* Music/TheAllmanBrothersBand, after the death of Duane Allman in a 1971 motorcycle accident, only had one Allman Brother. Since Gregg Allman died in 2017, any reunion under that name would be even more of an artifact--in fact, a reunion band of assorted surviving members have simply called themselves "The Brothers".
* The last time Average White Band (of "Pick Up the Pieces" fame) had an all-white line-up was in 1974, before their breakthrough album ''AWB''.
* Country music duo Baillie & the Boys had only one "boy" in it after Alan [=LaBoeuf=] left in 1990, leaving just the [[CreatorCouple husband-and-wife duo]] of Kathie Baillie and Michael Bonagura (as pictured on that year's ''The Lights of Home''). This name remained until [=LaBoeuf=] rejoined in 1998 (although Lance Hoppen and Roger [=McVay=] substituted in concerts until then).
* Minor example/possible aversion: Music/{{Blondie|band}} was so named because there were two other blonde singers present for their early rehearsals, [[ThePeteBest both of whom left before they ever played live or recorded anything]]. This has resulted in a lot of IAmNotShazam moments for the remaining blonde singer Debbie Harry.
* Music/TheChemicalBrothers were originally The Dust Brothers before the American production duo of that name (Music/{{Beck|Musician}}, Music/{{Hanson}}) threatened legal action. Their first album is called ''Exit Planet Dust'' in reference to this. The song "In Dust We Trust" retained its title even though it was no longer self-referential.
* Country Joe & The Fish, best known today for the protest song "I Feel Like I'm Fixing to Die Rag", were originally a duo of Joe [=McDonald=] and Barry "The Fish" Melton. They kept the name even as they added others as full members.
* An interesting example comes in the form of punk band Dillinger Four. Their name was originally The Young Dillingers after a name they saw in a record sleeve under the Thank You list. When it turned out to be the name of a local gang they changed it Dillinger Four. At the time of naming, they only had three members so it was just a silly joke. Then they added a second guitarist and the joke just sort of became a normal name.
* Well-known New York rapper Fat Joe lived up to his name in his early days, but after the death of his close friend and frequent collaborator Music/BigPun in 2000 from complications stemming from obesity, Fat Joe began to take controlling his weight seriously and later took on an impressive weight loss journey. Though he is still larger than the average man, it would be a gigantic stretch to claim that he is still 'fat' as a point of notoriety.
* Music/{{Five}} are a bizarre version. The two members that made the band famous (J and Abs) refused to take part in their reunion, thus rendering it a three-person band still named Five.
* GRIMMS were a pop/comedy band formed in 1971 by members of the Scaffold, the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, and the Liverpool Scene; the band's name was formed from the initials of original core band members John Gorman, Andy Roberts, [[Music/TheRutles Neil Innes]], Mike [=McGear=] (Music/PaulMcCartney's brother), Roger [=McGough=], and Vivian Stanshall. However, Stanshall left the band in 1972 and [=McGear=] followed a year later so that only four of the members referred to in the band name were left in the band by their breakup in 1976; moreover, after their first two performances, the band expanded to include many additional members not referenced in their name.[[note]] Nine, to be exact, though not all at once. Adrian Henri, Brian Patten, Michael Giles, John Megginson, and George Money contributed to the first album, ''Grimms''; Henri, Giles, and Money left in 1973 and were replaced by David Richards, Peter Halsall, and Gerry Conway for the second album, ''Rockin' Duck'', while Patten left in 1974 and Halsall and Conway left in 1975 to be replaced by Timmy Donnell for the third album, ''Sleepers''.[[/note]]
* Music/GunsNRoses is named after Tracii Guns and Axl Rose. [[ThePeteBest The former]] was fired by [[IAmTheBand the latter]] after missing rehearsals a mere two months into the band's existence, being replaced by Slash.
* Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds was a soft rock trio composed of Dan Hamilton, Joe Frank Carollo, and Tommy Reynolds. The group continued to use its original name even after Reynolds was replaced by Alan Dennison.
* Russian rave band Music/LittleBig started out as a quartet with included two little women (hence, the name reflected the contrast in size between the members of the band). As of 2018, both have left and no new little people joined the band, yet the name remains.
* The Mandarins were founded in 1963 as an all-Asian drum and bugle corps. Today, corps membership comes from all ethnic groups.
* When Music/Maroon5's keyboardist Jesse Carmichael took a leave of absence from the band in 2012, the band replaced him with P.J. Morton. Carmichael returned to the band after two years, but Morton remained, meaning that Maroon 5 became a six-piece, now a seven-piece following touring guitarist Sam Farrar promoted to being an official member.
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Boys_Choir The Miami Boys Choir]], an Orthodox Jewish pop group, moved to New York in its first few years, but never changed its name.
* [[Music/{{Slowdive}} Mojave 3]] only remained a trio for a mere two years before they were joined by two other members.
* GothRock band Mono Inc. were named for their original lead singer, Miky Mono, who left the band in 2006 and died in a paragliding accident in 2010.
* Creator/{{Motown}} Records, named after Detroit's nickname "Motor City", hasn't been based in Detroit since 1972. It's now headquartered in Los Angeles.
* [[http://www.omggband.com/omgg.cfm OMGG]], a bluegrass band particularly notable for the fact that its bandmembers have all been playing since they were quite young - the name stands for "Obviously Minor Guys and a Girl". The oldest already isn't particularly "obviously" minor, and soon enough none of them will be.
* The R&B and disco duo Peaches & Herb, originally consisting of Francine "Peaches" Hurd Barker, who adopted her childhood nickname for her music career, and Herb Fame. When Francine retired from the band as a live performer in 1968 and altogether in 1970, Herb would continue the group with other female vocalists adopting the "Peaches" name despite their lack of a personal connection to it. "Shake Your Groove Thing", the duo's biggest hit, was recorded with Linda Greene as the band's third Peaches.
* Music/ThePianoGuys primarily do piano and cello duets, but they were named after a piano shop. A few songs have just the cello without any piano at all.
* This might be the best way to explain the stage name of singer Music/{{Pink}}. When she first started, she actually had [[http://images.contactmusic.com/videoimages/sbmg/pnk-there-you-go.jpg pink hair]]. However, as time has gone by, she has changed it to blonde. Although, she says her stage name came from Mr. Pink in ''Film/ReservoirDogs'', so it's possible that the hair was only dyed pink to explain the name, instead of the name coming from her hair.
* Music/PizzicatoFive did start out as a band with five members, but that lineup didn't last long. They were a three-piece group when they got their BreakthroughHit, and for most of the period of their greatest international success, they were a duo.
* The Pointer Sisters kept the name even though the two of the sisters have been replaced by [[BandOfRelatives the daughter and granddaughter of the remaining sister]], none of whom legally have the surname "Pointer" but both perform with that surname.
* Secret Chiefs 3 started out as a trio but kept the "3" in the name once they became [[IAmTheBand Trey Spruance and a usually much larger, revolving-door lineup]].
* The "classic" Emo[[note]]In its original definition, see the entry above[[/note]] band Sleepytime Trio started out as a trio, but added a fourth member not too long after formation, and were a four-piece for almost their entire existence, yet they kept the name anyway.
* Music/SnoopDogg's stage name derives from Snoopy, a cartoon dog. When he briefly changed his name to Snoop Lion, the "Snoop" part became an artifact.
* Space Twins were originally a duo consisting of [[{{Music/Weezer}} Brian Bell]] and Susan Fox, who would dress up in ''Franchise/StarTrek''-inspired uniforms and pipe-cleaner antennae and perform for children's birthday parties. First they dropped the costumes and became a trio, then expanded further into a quartet. Though the "space" part of their name started making sense in a less literal way when they started incorporating more PsychedelicRock influences.
* SSQ were named for their lead singer Stacey Swain, who went by the stage name Stacey Q. They continued using the SSQ name [[TheBandMinusTheFace after she split with them]], though [[ZigzaggedTrope she has recently rejoined the group]].
* Subverted by the Thompson Twins. A trio at the height of their popularity (they had anywhere from four to six members in their early years), they became a duo after bassist Joe Leeway left.
* Music/{{TLC}}'s name became this following Left Eye's 2002 death.
* Japanese PowerMetal band Music/{{Versailles}} found out when they tried to perform in the US that there was already an American band named "Versailles" and changed their name to Versailles Philharmonic Quintet--a name which became awkwardly inappropriate after bassist Jasmine You's sudden death in 2009. While promoting their second album, they [[http://i46.tinypic.com/25umkg1.jpg continued to use]] the Versailles Philharmonic Quintet name despite only having four members. The name became accurate again when support bassist Masashi joined the band proper in late 2010.
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* Sophist of the WebVideo/PartyCrashers used have "Sophisticated Eevee" as his username, so his friends would naturally refer to him as simply "Eevee" for short. However, he has since shortened his username to just "Sophist", effectively dropping the Eevee subname. He explains in [[https://twitter.com/sophisteevee/status/1410864732622426112?s=46&t=LD_Rrj7GC49d5wFrHt1fLg this tweet]] that he did this to make himself more unique and recognizable, distancing himself from some random ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' character. But despite this name change, his friends still frequently refer to him as "Eevee" to this day.
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* Sophist of the WebVideo/PartyCrashers used have "Sophisticated Eevee" as his username, so his friends would naturally refer to him as simply "Eevee" for short. However, he has since shortened his username to just "Sophist", effectively dropping the Eevee subname. He explains in [[https://twitter.com/sophisteevee/status/1410864732622426112?s=46&t=LD_Rrj7GC49d5wFrHt1fLg this tweet]] that he did this to make himself more unique and recognizable, distancing himself from some random ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' character. But Yet despite this the name change, his friends the others still frequently refer to him as "Eevee" to this day.
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* ''ComicBook/IronMan'': Tony Stark's armor hasn't had much iron used in its construction for decades, but the name is iconic.
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* ''ComicBook/IronMan'': Tony Stark's armor hasn't had much iron used in its construction for decades, but the name is iconic. Even Tony [[LampshadeHanging will regularly point this out]].
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* LetsPlay/{{Sophist}}'s username used to be "Sophisticated Eevee", so his friends would naturally refer to him as simply "Eevee" for short. However, he has since shortened his username to just "Sophist", effectively dropping the Eevee subname. He explains in [[https://twitter.com/sophisteevee/status/1410864732622426112?s=46&t=LD_Rrj7GC49d5wFrHt1fLg this tweet]] that he did this to make himself more unique and recognizable, distancing himself from some random ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' character. But despite this name change, his friends still frequently refer to him as "Eevee" to this day.
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* LetsPlay/{{Sophist}}'s username Sophist of the WebVideo/PartyCrashers used to be have "Sophisticated Eevee", Eevee" as his username, so his friends would naturally refer to him as simply "Eevee" for short. However, he has since shortened his username to just "Sophist", effectively dropping the Eevee subname. He explains in [[https://twitter.com/sophisteevee/status/1410864732622426112?s=46&t=LD_Rrj7GC49d5wFrHt1fLg this tweet]] that he did this to make himself more unique and recognizable, distancing himself from some random ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' character. But despite this name change, his friends still frequently refer to him as "Eevee" to this day.
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* Sophist of the LetsPlay/PartyCrashers used to have "Sophisticated Eevee" as his username, so his friends would naturally refer to him as simply "Eevee" for short. However, he has since shortened his username to just "Sophist", effectively dropping the Eevee subname. He explains in [[https://twitter.com/sophisteevee/status/1410864732622426112?s=46&t=LD_Rrj7GC49d5wFrHt1fLg this tweet]] that he did this to make himself more unique and recognizable, distancing himself from some random ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' character. But despite this name change, the others still frequently refer to him as "Eevee" to this day.
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* Sophist of the LetsPlay/PartyCrashers LetsPlay/{{Sophist}}'s username used to have be "Sophisticated Eevee" as his username, Eevee", so his friends would naturally refer to him as simply "Eevee" for short. However, he has since shortened his username to just "Sophist", effectively dropping the Eevee subname. He explains in [[https://twitter.com/sophisteevee/status/1410864732622426112?s=46&t=LD_Rrj7GC49d5wFrHt1fLg this tweet]] that he did this to make himself more unique and recognizable, distancing himself from some random ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' character. But despite this name change, the others his friends still frequently refer to him as "Eevee" to this day.
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** Malaria comes from the Medieval Italian words "mala aria", meaning 'bad air', as the disease was named during a period when most sicknesses were believed called by "miasma", or "bad air". Of course, it's now known that malaria is caused by a microscopic parasitic pathogen spread by mosquito bites, and the miasma idea has been completely abandoned, replaced by germ theory.
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** Malaria comes from the Medieval Italian words "mala aria", meaning 'bad air', "bad air", as the disease was named during a period when most sicknesses were believed called to be caused by "miasma", or "bad air". Of course, it's miasma (polluted air). It's now known that malaria is caused by a microscopic parasitic pathogen spread by mosquito bites, and the miasma idea has been completely abandoned, replaced by germ theory.
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* Sophist from the LetsPlay/PartyCrashers used to have "Sophisticated Eevee" as his username, so his friends would naturally refer to him as simply "Eevee" for short. However, he has since shortened his username to just "Sophist", effectively dropping the Eevee subname. He explains in [[https://twitter.com/sophisteevee/status/1410864732622426112?s=46&t=LD_Rrj7GC49d5wFrHt1fLg this tweet]] that he did this to make himself more unique and recognizable, distancing himself from some random ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' character. But despite this name change, the others still frequently refer to him as "Eevee" to this day.
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* Sophist from of the LetsPlay/PartyCrashers used to have "Sophisticated Eevee" as his username, so his friends would naturally refer to him as simply "Eevee" for short. However, he has since shortened his username to just "Sophist", effectively dropping the Eevee subname. He explains in [[https://twitter.com/sophisteevee/status/1410864732622426112?s=46&t=LD_Rrj7GC49d5wFrHt1fLg this tweet]] that he did this to make himself more unique and recognizable, distancing himself from some random ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' character. But despite this name change, the others still frequently refer to him as "Eevee" to this day.
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* LetsPlay/PartyCrashers: Sophist's username used to be "Sophisticated Eevee", so his friends would naturally refer to him as simply "Eevee" for short. However, he has since shortened his username to just "Sophist", effectively dropping the Eevee subname. He explains in [[https://twitter.com/sophisteevee/status/1410864732622426112?s=46&t=LD_Rrj7GC49d5wFrHt1fLg this tweet]] that he did this to make himself more unique and recognizable, distancing himself from some random ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' character. But despite this name change, the others still frequently refer to him as "Eevee" to this day.
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* LetsPlay/PartyCrashers: Sophist's username Sophist from the LetsPlay/PartyCrashers used to be have "Sophisticated Eevee", Eevee" as his username, so his friends would naturally refer to him as simply "Eevee" for short. However, he has since shortened his username to just "Sophist", effectively dropping the Eevee subname. He explains in [[https://twitter.com/sophisteevee/status/1410864732622426112?s=46&t=LD_Rrj7GC49d5wFrHt1fLg this tweet]] that he did this to make himself more unique and recognizable, distancing himself from some random ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' character. But despite this name change, the others still frequently refer to him as "Eevee" to this day.
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** This is true of several other characters, whose role in their first appearance is assumed to be their real name and identity. Miss Achmetha was originally a minor character from the Esther story (a beauty pageant contestant from Achmetha, to Esther's Miss Babylon) and, despite being one of the more versatile characters in the series, is still identified as Miss Achmetha in the credits.
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** In Creator/GrantMorrison's ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiers'', the Newsboy Legion is the ''Manhattan Guardian'''s army of amateur reporters.
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** In Creator/GrantMorrison's ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiers'', ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiersOfVictory2005'', the Newsboy Legion is the ''Manhattan Guardian'''s army of amateur reporters.
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* ''Series/DoomPatrol2019'': Since her parents Mr. and Mrs. Spinner (who were retroactively revealed to be her adoptive parents in John Arcudi's run on [[ComicBook/DoomPatrol the comic]]) are AdaptedOut due to the change of [[RelatedInTheAdaptation Niles Caulder being her father]] and [[CanonForeigner an immortal cavewoman named Slava]] filling in the position of her unidentified birth mother, there is little reason for this continuity's interpretation of Dorothy Spinner to still have Spinner as her established surname.
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* The Bayside Boys were a producer/remixer duo most famous for creating the hit remix version of "Macarena" (their main addition were the English-language verses from a female singer). One of them had the idea to turn them into a full recording act and recruited a female singer, meaning that the Bayside Boys were no longer a group of boys.
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* The Bayside Boys were a producer/remixer duo most famous for creating the hit remix version of "Macarena" (their main addition were was the English-language verses from a female singer).verses). One of them had the idea to turn them into a full recording act and recruited a female singer, meaning that the Bayside Boys were no longer a group of boys.
