| 100% | TERO | 4 | What Mr. T. used to call himself before he legally changed his last name to "T." |
| 43% | KANYEWEST | 9 | He legally changed his name to Ye |
| 41% | ONO | 3 | What John Lennon changed his middle name to after he got married |
| 35% | ONO | 3 | What John Lennon changed his middle name to in 1969 |
| 34% | SNOOPLION | 9 | What singer/rapper Calvin Broadus changed his stage name to in July 2012: 2 wds. |
| 33% | LAUGH | 5 | "... Used to ___ and call him names..." |
| 33% | EDNORTON | 8 | Sitcom sidekick whose wife sometimes calls him by his last name |
| 32% | POE | 3 | His name, plus T, is what he was |
| 29% | GOATOFTHEGAME | 13 | What 32-Across called himself after 18-Across managed to win Super Bowl VII in spite of his flub (4 wds.) |
| 29% | OMAHA | 5 | 1913 birthplace of Leslie Lynch King Jr., who later changed his name to Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. |
| 29% | SPENCE | 6 | What Hepburn used to call Tracy |
| 29% | CAGE | 4 | Actor Nicolas who changed his last name from Coppola |
| 28% | BURNER | 6 | What might be used to make bad calls? |
| 28% | OTTO | 4 | What Ove's name was changed to for the American film adaptation of "A Man Called Ove" |
| 28% | ENES | 4 | Basketballer Freedom who changed his last name from Kanter in 2021 |
| 28% | BIEL | 4 | Actress Jessica who changed her last name to Timberlake in 2013 |
| 28% | ALDA | 4 | Actor whose last name is a 41-Down of his first name, after a D is changed to an N |
| 28% | TERO | 4 | Mr. T's last name |
| 28% | SAW | 3 | What a magician uses to cut his assistant in half |
| 27% | TERO | 4 | Mr. T's real last name |
| 27% | MESOTRONS | 9 | what mesons used to be called |
| 27% | THELORDSSPRAYER | 15 | What He uses to produce rain? |
| 27% | FILIBUSTER | 10 | What Mitch McConnell used to block his own bill, in 2012 |
| 27% | ANNI | 4 | What Augustus used to measure his age |
| 27% | YENS | 4 | What not to call change in Japan |
| 27% | HILLARYRODHAM | 13 | She married Bill in 1975 but didn't start using his last name until his 1982 Arkansas gubernatorial campaign |
| 27% | BURMA | 5 | What the country Myanmar used to be called |
| 26% | FATHER | 6 | Santa's almost here, but what name should you call him by? (1/3) ___ Christmas is his traditional English name |
| 26% | GEORGOHM | 8 | He gave his name to unit of electrical resistance |
| 26% | BALLOONS | 8 | What Carl used to move his house in "Up" |