| 100% | RON | 3 | Basketball player Artest who changed his name to Metta World Peace in 2011 |
| 74% | RON | 3 | 49-Down player Artest who changed his name to Metta World Peace |
| 40% | RONARTEST | 9 | Basketball player Metta World Peace's pre-2011 name: 2 wds. |
| 36% | MAGIC | 5 | ___ Johnson, American retired professional basketball player who runs a conglomerate company in his name |
| 32% | RONARTEST | 9 | Basketball's Metta World Peace, until 2011 |
| 32% | ENES | 4 | Basketballer Freedom who changed his last name from Kanter in 2021 |
| 32% | NEHRU | 5 | World leader who gave his name to a jacket |
| 32% | PLANCK | 6 | Max who lent his name to a constant in physics |
| 31% | EVAN | 4 | Basketball player Turner who was traded to the Hawks in 2019 |
| 31% | RON | 3 | ___ Artest (former name of Metta World Peace) |
| 31% | BIEBER | 6 | Singer who gave his name to a "fever" in the 2010s |
| 31% | ONO | 3 | What John Lennon changed his middle name to in 1969 |
| 31% | CRAWFORD | 8 | Jamal ___, American basketball player who announced his retirement in March 2022 |
| 31% | BIEL | 4 | Actress Jessica who changed her last name to Timberlake in 2013 |
| 30% | MESMER | 6 | Austrian physician who lent his name to an English word ending in "-ize" |
| 29% | SNOOPLION | 9 | What singer/rapper Calvin Broadus changed his stage name to in July 2012: 2 wds. |
| 29% | KANYEWEST | 9 | He legally changed his name to Ye |
| 29% | AXIS | 4 | Name given to the countries who allied with Germany in the Second World War |
| 29% | WILT | 4 | ___ Chamberlain, basketball player who scored a Philadelphia-record 90 points in a game in his senior year |
| 28% | WILT | 4 | ___ Chamberlain, basketball player who dunked his free throws because of whom the NBA changed their free throw rules |
| 28% | WILT | 4 | ___ Chamberlain, American basketball player who is the only player to score 100 points in a single NBA game |
| 28% | MIDAS | 5 | Man who changed 10 letters in this puzzle by touching them (the original letters describe his daughter, to his dismay) |
| 27% | LISALESLIE | 10 | Basketball Hall of Fame inductee who was the first player to dunk in a WNBA game: 2 wds. |
| 27% | MARTIN | 6 | ___ Johnson, former English rugby player who captained England to victory in the 2003 Rugby World Cup |
| 27% | ONEAL | 5 | Basketball player who starred in "Kazaam" |
| 27% | JORDAN | 6 | Michael ___, American former basketball player who started his career in 1984 with the Chicago Bulls and won six NBA Finals MVP Awards |
| 27% | CAGE | 4 | Actor Nicolas who changed his last name from Coppola |
| 27% | NICKWILDE | 9 | Sly red fox who changes his ways in Zootopia |
| 26% | BINET | 5 | Psychologist who gave his name to a test |
| 26% | ANTHONY | 7 | Saint who lent his name to a cross |