Dido
The singer was born Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong and is now
officially Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong.
That's a mouthful!
As a child, her unusual name caused her a lot of grief:
"To be
called one thing and christened another is actually very confusing and
annoying. It's one of the most irritating things that my parents did to
me.... Florian is a German man's name. That's just mean. To give your
child a whole lot of odd names. They were all so embarrassing. ...I
thought it was cruel to call me Dido and then expect me to just deal
with it."
Jodie's name may be a staple in Hollywood these days, but when it was first changed - when she was just a kid - it went through a few spelling changes before it stuck. Alicia Christian Foster was in "Gunsmoke" in 1969 as Jody Foster. Then in 1970s' "Daniel Boone" she was Jodi Foster.
It has been spelled "Jodie" ever since
The British actress has the same name as King Henry VIII's third wife, and that's no coincidence. Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg assumed the royal's name when she began acting.
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