“Uncover the Bizarre Middle Names of Your Favorite Celebrities: You Won’t Believe What They Are!”
Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland
Well, if you thought Mel Gibson had a lot of names, wait until you hear what Kiefer Sutherland’s parents did to their son. This guy has more names than Dumbledore (whose full name is Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, by the way). His full name is Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus Sutherland.
Sutherland is named after American writer and director Warren Kiefer, who directed his father, Donald Sutherland in his first feature film, Castle of the Living Dead. I’m not sure what’s going on with all those other names.
Matt Paige Damon
Matthew Paige Damon was born to Kent Telfer Damon and Nancy Carlsson-Paige in 1970. His mother is partially Finnish and Swedish. Her original last name was Pajari, but it was changed to Paige when the family moved to America.
Matt Damon’s middle name is really just his mother’s maiden name. Yeah, it’s kind of a girls’ name, but I think Matt Damon wears it well. It would have been cool if he named his daughter Paige.
Eldrick Tont “Tiger” Woods
Tiger Woods was born in 1975 to parents named Kultida and Earl Woods. Kultida is originally from Thailand, and Earl met her there when he was on a tour of duty.
Woods’ first name—Eldrick—was chosen by his mother because it began with “E” (for Earl) and ended with “K” (for Kultida). His middle name, Tont, is a traditional Thai name. He was given the nickname Tiger in honor of his father’s friend Col. Vuong Dang Phong, who had also been known as Tiger.
Courteney Bass Cox
Courteney Cox is the daughter of Richard Lewis Cox and Courteney Copeland (née Bass). Even though Cox has two older sisters, she was the lucky one who got to be named after her own mother. She also got to keep her mother’s maiden name as her middle name.
What I want to know is why both Courteney Cox and her mother insist on spelling their first name with an extra “e.”
Drew Allison Carey
I’m not sure why Drew Carey’s parents decided to give him the middle name Allison. Once upon a time, the name Allison was a boy’s name, but now it’s a name that’s mostly reserved for girls and women.
I think Drew Carey pulls off the middle name Allison pretty well. It seems like a very high class middle name. It’s a middle name a New Yorker editor would have.
Martin Hayter Short
Comedian Martin Short’s middle name is literally “Hayter,’ but I don’t think Martin Short has ever been a hater in his whole life.
I don’t think he’s ever met a hater either. Who doesn’t love Martin Short? Hayter was actually Martin Short’s mother’s maiden name. I’m starting to see a trend here. I don’t know if the name “Hayter” is worth passing on, though. I guess that’s why Short didn’t include it in his stage name.
Hugh John Mungo Grant
I don’t know how you feel about the middle name “Mungo,” but I can tell you that Hugh Grant absolutely loves it. He loves it so much that he passed it along to his own son. It looks like Mungo is going to be a family name now. Or maybe it always was.
I hope there are lots more Mungo Grants for years to come. You have to admit, it’s a pretty cool name.
Pharrell Lanscilo Williams
I’m not sure what the story is behind Pharrell Williams’ unique middle name. I kind of like it. It’s not much more unusual than “Pharrell.” If we can get used to “Pharrell” we can get used to Lanscilo.
Pharrell’s father’s name is Pharaoh, which is also a very cool name (that is just a little too similar to “Pharrell”). Pharrell’s gotten this far with his weird middle name, so I really don’t think that it’s holding him back.
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.
I have never ever heard the name “Robinette” before. The name was actually passed down from Biden’s father, Joseph Robinette Biden Sr. The name “Robinette” was Biden’s grandmother’s maiden name. I kind of like it.
I don’t think I’d like it as a first name, but as a middle name or a last name, it kind of works. It sounds like a little version of Batman’s sidekick or a tiny little bird.
Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton Wykeham Fiennes
Ralph Fiennes, AKA Lord Voldemort, has three middle names, and two of them are downright crazy. Twisleton? Wykeham? Weird middle names seem to be a thing in the Fiennes family because Ralph’s brother, Joseph Fiennes’ full name is Joseph Alberic Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes.
I think this name is more of a super long last name than a middle name, but it’s pretty unusual, so it’s staying on this list.
