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* Actor Creator/EricBana's real name is Eric Banadinovic.

* Michael Bolton's real surname is Bolotin.

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* In ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'', the title character explains that he changed his name from Shang-Chi to Shaun when he went into hiding in the United States. His friend Katy ridicules this as not being enough of a change, comparing it to a hypothetical "Gina" going into hiding as "Gyna."

* In ''Theatre/TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest'' Jack, an adopted man, refers to himself as Ernest when in town. His love interest feels she can only marry a man named Ernest and can only marry a man with a strong family social standing (which being adopted, Jack does not). After some misunderstandings and [[HilarityEnsues ensual of hilarity]], the mystery of Jack's parentage is solved, as first-born, he would be named after his father, who turned out to be named Ernest.

* In ''Theatre/TheImportanceOfBeingEarnest'' Jack, an adopted man, refers to himself as Ernest when in town. His love interest feels she can only marry a man named Ernest and can only marry a man with a strong family social standing (which being adopted, Jack does not). After some misunderstandings and HilarityEnsues, Jack's birth certificate surfaces at the plays's end he was named Ernest all along.

* In ''[[Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings]]'', the title character explains that he changed his name from Shang-Chi to Shaun when he went into hiding in the United States. His friend Katy ridicules this as not being enough of a change, comparing it to a hypothetical "Gina" going into hiding as "Gyna."

* In [[Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings]], the title character explains that he changed his name from Shang-Chi to Shaun when he went into hiding in the United States. His friend Katy ridicules this as not being enough of a change, comparing it to a hypothetical "Gina" going into hiding as "Gyna."

* When UsefulNotes/GeneralMills revived [[Advertising/MonsterCereals Fruit Brute and Fruity Yummy Mummy]] in the 2013 Halloween season, Fruit Brute is renamed '''Frute''' Brute, [[LiteCreme possibly because it can't legally be called "Fruit" any more due to changing USDA truth in labelling standards]], hence Frute. Even the retro edition sold exclusively at Target carries the new name. Non-food merchandise of the character still retains his original name, however.

* [[Music/HarryBelafonte Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.]]

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' there's a scene in which Garnet changes her name to an alias, which she [[LineOfSightName takes from Zidane's dagger]], but then a naming screen pops up prompting the player to enter whatever they'd like if "Dagger" doesn't sound good enough. You're free to rename her "Garnet", which will render the whole scene rather pointless.
* Lightning from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' changed her name to her current one after she lost her parents so that she can be strong. In the Japanese version, her birth name was Eclair, which is French for "lightning". Averted in the English translation, which [[SignificantAnagram anagrams]] the Japanese name to get "Claire".

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' during the Heavensward expansion, a group of extraplanar antagonists known as the Warriors Of Darkness appear to have the same naming scheme as their equivalent StandardFantasyRaces, until the Shadowbringers expansion revisits them and reveals those names to be pseudonyms, albeit pseudonyms that sound phonetically similar to their true names. The only true example in group is the elf magus Nyelbert, who took the identically pronounced "Naillebert", though [[TheLeader Ardbert/Arbert]] is almost the same as well, a fact he comments on.

* In ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'', every character, besides the main character, takes on a numerical code name to hide their true identity. It later turns out that [[spoiler:Clover]] actually used their real name as their code name, since it fit with the numerical system.

* [[Music/HarryBelafone Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.]]

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' during the Heavensward expansion, a group of extraplanar antagonists known as the Warriors Of Darkness appear to have the same naming scheme as their equivalent [[FiveRaces fantasy races]], until the Shadowbringers expansion revisits them and reveals those names to be pseudonyms, albeit pseudonyms that sound phonetically similar to their true names. The only true example in group is the elf magus Nyelbert, who took the identically pronounced "Naillebert", though [[TheLeader Ardbert/Arbert]] is almost the same as well, a fact he comments on.

*** Somewhat downplayed, in that the name itself never undergoes an actual change, but rather the audience does; as Saul's letters proceed to various church groups, the church has spread to gentiles who would use the Latin version instead of the Hebrew version the primarily-Jewish audiences from earlier on would have used.

* In ''Discworld/MenAtArms'', Cheery Littlebottom changes the spelling of her name to "Cheri" after defying dwarf tradition to "come out" as a female. Angua suggests she could pronounce it "Sherie" as well. It gets {{lampshaded}}; Angua also points out that the way people spell in Ankh-Morpork no-one will notice unless she tells them, and the narration says that when you've decided to shout who you are to the world, it's a relief to know you can do it in a whisper.

Compare BarelyChangedDubName.

Bob renames himself Robert.

*** His wife/[[ValuesDissonance half-sister]], Sarai, is renamed Sarah (both translate as [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses princess]])

* When UsefulNotes/GeneralMills revived [[Advertising/MonsterCereals Fruit Brute and Fruity Yummy Mummy]] in the 2013 Halloween season, Fruit Brute is renamed '''Frute''' Brute, [[LiteCreme possibly because it can't legally be called "Fruit" any more due to changing USDA truth in labelling standards]], hence Frute. Even the retro edition sold exclusively at Target carries the new name.

* One of the ways ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' sets apart the [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Part 1]] and [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Part 3]] versions of [[Main/BigBad Dio Brando]] is by referring to the former as Dio Brando (written normally and using his full name) and to the latter as DIO (in all caps and excluding his family name).

* One of the ways ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' sets the [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood Part 1]] and [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Part 3]] versions of [[Main/BigBad Dio Brando]] is by referring to the former as Dio Brando (written normally and using his full name) and to the latter as DIO (in all caps and excluding his family name).