A big step toward becoming an adult, Suri Cruise just changed her name. She decided to give up her father’s last name and take on her mother’s middle name. Her journey toward independence and self-discovery is marked by the fact that, at eighteen, she now possesses the legal freedom to make such decisions.
In reference to her mother Katie Holmes, whose full name includes the middle name Noelle, Suri was named as Suri Noelle in a New York musical performance, which made it clear that she had changed her name. It is clear from this purposeful decision that Suri is claiming her identity and independence.
The news was generated when Cruise did not attend Suri’s graduation. The 18-year-old dropped her father’s last name for the ceremony, and more headlines followed. Rather, she went by “Siri Noelle.” Page Six was informed by sources that her mother was honored by her new moniker.
Last weekend, 11 years after Tom Cruise filed a $50 million defamation lawsuit against a publication that claimed he had “abandoned” his daughter Suri because his ex-wife, Katie Holmes, wouldn’t raise her in the Church of Scientology, his long-standing and obvious estrangement from her became starkly apparent.
The Hollywood megastar clarified his objections to stories by In Touch that claimed he had severed contact with a then-7-year-old Suri after Holmes divorced him in 2012 during a September 2013 deposition for the case. He objected to the article, saying that as a well-known Scientologist, he had decided to join the religion “for good” instead of his daughter.
