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

Over there, film critic Pauline Kael; and there, poet and sitcom star Suzanne Somers; and look, there’s bar-band singer Hugh Cregg, who’ll eventually use the stage name Huey Lewis. — Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026

Hardy resurrected his rap career in 2026, releasing the album Czarface Meets Frankie Pulitzer under the stage name Frankie Pulitzer. — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Sep. 2026

One way is allegedly using an artist’s real name instead of their stage name. — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 1 Sep. 2026

Morello, an underground East Contra Costa rapper who went by the stage name $mooth, left a wife and two children, who were 6 and 8 when he was killed, according to an online fundraiser. — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 19 Aug. 2026

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