Our names significantly contribute to our personality and when you’re a celebrity, you have to make sure your name stands out from the rest of them.

Stage names are a common phenomenon and a lot of celebrities around the world don’t use their real names. Here are some of them.

PewDiePie — Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg

BBC

CarryMinati — Ajey Nagar 

Time Magazine

Cardi B — Belcalis Marlenis Almanzar

W Magazine

Avicii — Tim Bergling

Mixmag

Nicki Minaj — Onika Tanya Maraj

Rolling Stone

Yo Yo Honey Singh — Hirdesh Singh

DNA India

Badshah — Aditya Prateek Singh Sisodia

BBC

Bruno Mars — Peter Gene Hernandez

Las Vegas Magazine

Kit Harington — Christopher Catesby Harington

Variety

Calvin Harris — Adam Richard Wiles

EDM Tunes

Rihanna — Robyn Rihanna Fenty

Teen Vogue

Akon — Aliaune Damala Badara Akon Thiam

NME

Miley Cyrus — Destiny Hope Cyrus

AOL

Snoop Dogg — Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr.

Cult MTL

Raftaar — Dilin Nair

DNA India

Divine — Vivian Fernandes

BBC

Lady GaGa — Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta

Mashable

Gigi Hadid — Jelena Noura Hadid

Variety

The Weeknd — Abel Makkonen Tesfaye

Pitchfork

Maisie Williams — Margaret Constance Williams

Rolling Stone

Sunny Deol — Ajay Singh Deol

Wiki Bio

Naezy — Naved Shaikh

Wild City

Hard Kaur — Taran Kaur Dhillon

India Today

Kim Kardashian — Kimberly Noel Kardashian

Vogue

Baba Sehgal — Harjeet Singh Sehgal

Source

Vidya Vox — Vidya Iyer

Elle India

Bhuvan Bam — Bhuvaneshwar Bam

India Today

Mallika Sherawat — Reema Lamba 

The Week

Kiara Advani — Aalia Advani 

India Today

Shilpa Shetty — Ashwini Shetty 

Biz Asia

Katrina Kaif — Kate Turquotte

India Today

Saif Ali Khan — Sajid Ali Khan

IMDb

Sunny Leone — Karanjit Kaur Vohra

Cric Tracker

Sridevi —  Shree Amma Yanger Ayyapan

Metro

Prabhas — Venkata Satyanarayana Prabhas Raju Uppalapati

Deccan Chronicle

Tiger Shroff — Jai Hemant Shroff

DNA India

How many did you already know?