stage name

noun

plural stage names

: an assumed name by which a performer (such as an actor or musician) is known professionally

Plenty of aspiring actors and singers choose a stage name before heading to Hollywood. When they finally make it big, that's the name they'll see in lights instead of the one they were born with.

—Kristen Harris

Before they were rock stars with one-word stage names, Flea and Slash knew each other as teenagers growing up in Los Angeles in the late 1970s.

—Mikael Wood

Examples of stage name in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The artist plays the role of a fictional, historical freak – a 19th-century performer known under the stage name The Lonesome Wing, who, according to rumors, was born with the wing of a white bird instead of one arm. —Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025

The performer filed a complaint in a California district court on Tuesday requesting the cancellation of Paisley Park's pending applications for the Apollonia name, and is also seeking an injunction to stop the estate from interfering in her use of her stage name. —Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025

As an artist, Tillman's stage name was Sebastian Kole when writing hits with Jennifer Lopez, Flo Rida, Alessia Cara and others. —Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025

Musician Daniel Dumile, more commonly known by his stage name, MF Doom, co-founded Gas Drawls before his sudden death in 2020. —Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 12 Aug. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1727, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for stage name

• aspartame
• counterclaim
• overcame
• underframe
• username
• acclaim
• aflame
• airframe
• ballgame
• became
• declaim
• defame