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Over a dozen years later, Katie Holmes has totally moved on from the Tom Cruise chapter of her life.
So has her daughter.
Persevering with the sample of superstar children reaching maturity and ditching the surnames of their dads who have been actually scorching within the early Nineties, Suri has a brand new authorized identify.
There’s no “Cruise” in sight. And, apparently, no “Holmes.”
It’s official!
Web page Six reviews that Suri registered to vote throughout her freshman 12 months at Carnegie Mellon College.
What makes this very normal exercise — notably for an election 12 months (Suri was a freshman in autumn 2024) — outstanding is that voter registrations have to be beneath one’s authorized identify.
She is registered to vote as “Suri Noelle.” That’s the identical identify that she utilized in a pamphlet on the finish of highschool.
Registering to vote like this may solely imply that Suri has modified her authorized identify.
Ditching the “Cruise” surname is sensible. Notably, she has finished this very quietly whereas main a comparatively regular life.
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Suri, Katie Holmes’s daughter, who was deserted by her organic father, Tom Cruise, legally dropped the final identify “Cruise” sooner or later, per a brand new report from Web page Six.
Suri Noelle is the identify she used to register to vote.
Good for her.
A reminder: Tom Cruise… pic.twitter.com/jOkY988VU0
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) July 27, 2026
The report mentions that Suri didn’t file for her identify change in Allegheny County.
From that, most conclude that she probably sought her identify change in New York — earlier than she left for school.
Having a authorized identify change carries many benefits.
Solely one in every of which isn’t having to clarify to a number of professors, resident advisors, and extra why you’d desire to not have your former identify learn aloud to a room stuffed with your friends and potential associates.
That has broad functions even when your former surname wasn’t “Cruise.” It was good of Suri to hunt this modification beforehand — presumably proper after she turned 18.
She’s following Katie Holmes’ instance (and saying little or no)
These of us sufficiently old to recollect Tom Cruise leaping on Oprah’s sofa probably don’t want a reminder of how issues ended with Katie Holmes.
In 2012, Holmes filed to divorce Cruise after 6 years of marriage.
Divorcing Cruise is a notoriously daunting prospect. To this present day, Nicole Kidman avoids talking ailing of Cruise or of Scientology, which some governments have branded as a predatory enterprise slightly than as a “faith.”
Holmes has not been outspoken about her erstwhile marriage or about her experiences throughout that point.
Nonetheless, in December of 2024, she did verify that Suri didn’t have a belief fund from her estranged father. (There have been reviews of such a fund, which Holmes denied.)
Shiloh Jolie 🤝 Suri Noelle dropping the final names of their problematic, deadbeat dads
— ᴊᴇʟᴀ (@jelevision) June 25, 2024
TMZ reviews that, in line with their supply, Suri has been estranged from her father since she was 7 years outdated.
With that in thoughts, the 2024 revelation that she’d used “Suri Noelle” in direction of the tip of highschool made quite a lot of sense.
Solely now do now we have affirmation that she made this modification legally.
Superstar children may have any variety of causes to obfuscate a well-known — or notorious — mother or father’s surname. Cruise is each well-known and notorious.
However to do that legally appears fairly private.
It’s straightforward to ask if Tom Cruise ever cared about her. However many would argue that the very best factor that he ever did for Suri was vanishing from her life.