# Performers who kept their names **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 21, 2021, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/performers-who-kept-their-names/954697 "2021-11-21T01:24:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/performers-who-kept-their-names/954697/81 "2022-03-17T02:25:42Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > That’s what I figured was being referenced Offtopic, but where are you from that you use “figured” that way? I use it that way, too, in daily life, but usually change it online because people get confused. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/performers-who-kept-their-names/954697/82 "2022-03-17T23:33:23Z")
I’m from the American east coast. Doesn’t everyone say things that “That’s what I figured”? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/performers-who-kept-their-names/954697/83 "2022-03-17T23:35:48Z")
figures you easterners would talk that way ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/performers-who-kept-their-names/954697/84 "2022-03-17T23:36:31Z")
I’m from the west coast, and that’s what I say. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/performers-who-kept-their-names/954697/85 "2022-03-17T23:44:48Z")
I’m plumb offended! ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/performers-who-kept-their-names/954697/86 "2022-03-17T23:46:19Z")
well, at least you are not all akilter ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/performers-who-kept-their-names/954697/87 "2022-03-18T01:24:08Z")
Huh. I thought these were all hillbilly words. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/performers-who-kept-their-names/954697/88 "2022-03-18T04:39:31Z")
goldang flatanders ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/performers-who-kept-their-names/954697/89 "2022-03-19T04:26:47Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > figures you easterners would talk that way We don’t cotton to none of your high falutin fancy talk round these parts, dad blame it. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/performers-who-kept-their-names/954697/90 "2022-03-19T12:59:02Z")
We prefer “Hill Williams” ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2022, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/performers-who-kept-their-names/954697/91 "2022-03-19T13:43:33Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > I read, a long time ago, that it was his professional manager who gave him the name Englebert Humperdinck. Here’s how it went: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/yjaRR4ofudA/hqdefault.jpg "Eddie Izzard - Engelbert Humperdinck") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjaRR4ofudA&t=60) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/performers-who-kept-their-names/954697.md?page=4)