Quotes / Only One Name

Parker: Ticket for one.
Box office clerk: Last name?
Parker: Parker.
Box office clerk: First name?
Parker: No. Just one name.

— Leverage, "The Beantown Bailout Job"

"It's just Niles. Like Cher."

— Niles, The Nanny

Chuck: ...your last name is Miura?
[Chuck looks shocked and Yuzuki nods to confirm Chuck's question.]
Yuzuki: I-I thought you knew.
Chuck: No, I didn't. I thought you were one of these people who just didn't have a last name. Like Cher. And Madonna.

— We Are Our Avatars

Angel: I mean, do you even have a last name?
Eve: Do you?

— Angel, "Life of the Party"

"Tintin is neither a surname nor a first name; it is much more than that. Tintin is a totally unique world, a myth or a saga. Tintin is created from Hergé's subconscious desire to be perfect, to be a hero. The hero who everyone between 7 and 77 years old wants to be, or become, while reading the Adventures of Tintin."

— From Tintin's character page on the comic's official website

Strange: And you are?
Wong: Wong.
Strange: Wong. Just Wong? Like... Adele? Or Aristotle? Drake? Bono? Eminem?

— Doctor Strange

Hego: "You know of my sister?"
Ron: "Oh yeah, we're on a first name basis. Actually, does she have a last name?"

— Kim Possible

Barbara Gordon and Garth... Do you even have a last name?

—Mr. Chapin. DC Super Hero Girls

Chief Wiggum: Can Eddie and Lou have producer credits?
Carmen Electra: Yep.
TV host: Now what are your last names?
Lou: We don't have them. We're like Cher.

—The Simpsons, "The Frying Game"

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