# Nicknames or Calling Cards Adopted as Legal Names **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 16, 2021, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-or-calling-cards-adopted-as-legal-names/937990 "2021-03-16T05:11:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2021, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-or-calling-cards-adopted-as-legal-names/937990/21 "2021-03-16T21:15:21Z")
> [@doreen](#): > > Real ID has to do with Federal standards for ID that can be used to fly - it has nothing to do with standards for the issuance of birth certificates. True. However, the State of Indiana at one point issued me a RealID (the document that lets me into an airport) that had a different name than what appeared on my pilot’s license (a Federal document that actually lets me fly an airplane. I don’t want to rehash the problem all over again (it appeared in another thread a couple years ago) but it sure pissed the hell out of me. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2021, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-or-calling-cards-adopted-as-legal-names/937990/22 "2021-03-16T21:38:19Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > No, Meat Loaf was born Marvin Lee Aday and legally changed his first name to Michael in 1984. Meat Loaf remains as the name he performs under. Strangely, he was called Meat his entire life, though. Nickname from childhood, added Loaf later. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-or-calling-cards-adopted-as-legal-names/937990/23 "2021-03-17T09:40:05Z")
One Robert Allen Zimmermann legally changed his name to Bob Dylan as early as 1962, when he still only was known by a small circle of people in Greenwich Village. Everything you need to know about that change here: [https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/why-bob-dylan-changed-his-stage-name/](https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/why-bob-dylan-changed-his-stage-name/) ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2021, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-or-calling-cards-adopted-as-legal-names/937990/24 "2021-03-17T14:11:10Z")
Interestingly enough Warrior’s rival “Ravishing” Rick Rude may have legally changed his name to that. (At least that’s what I remember reading in a wrestling magazine as a kid. They played fast and loose with the truth though so it might not be true.) ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-or-calling-cards-adopted-as-legal-names/937990/25 "2021-03-18T18:59:31Z")
After using this nom de plume for years Stanley Martin Lieberman legally changed his name to Stan Lee. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2021, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-or-calling-cards-adopted-as-legal-names/937990/26 "2021-03-18T19:12:18Z")
Todd Alan Clem changed his first and middle names to **[Bubba the Love Sponge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubba_the_Love_Sponge)**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nicknames-or-calling-cards-adopted-as-legal-names/937990.md?page=1)