Demi Moore | Demetria Gene Guynes

Some household names are so renowned that it’s difficult to imagine the celebrities going by their actual names and having that indisputable “It” factor. Parents, on the other hand, don’t always intend to name their children after celebrities. So Demetria Gene Guynes, for example, became the renowned actress and producer Demi Moore.

Demi, credits to some reports, is a shortened version of the name Demetria, which was inspired by a shampoo her mother saw in a magazine. Moore assumed her last name, Guynes, was derived from the surname of her stepfather Danny Guynes. Demi kept her stepfather’s surname until she married and married singer Freddy Moore, who gave her the surname Moore. The actress became one of the highest-paid and most sought out actresses in Hollywood during the 1980s and 1990s and has been acknowledged as a significant role in the push for equal pay for women in Hollywood.