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

Min Yoongi, who uses the stage name Suga, was the last of the members to complete his service, discharged in June 2025. —Greta Cross, USA Today, 5 Jan. 2026

Emilio Estevez uses his famous dad's real last name, choosing to forgo the stage name, Martin Sheen, that his dad used for his whole career. —Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 30 Dec. 2025

And King Princess, the stage name for pop artist Mikaela Straus, plays Mike's daughter, Angelina. —Piet Levy, jsonline.com, 30 Dec. 2025

Unflirt is the stage name of the London singer-songwriter Christine Senorin, whose voice has a sweetness that makes language feel secondary to the pleasures of sound—which isn’t to say that the lyrics to her songs are skippable. —Hanif Abdurraqib, New Yorker, 18 Dec. 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