Suri Noelle legally drops Cruise surname, registers to vote

Suri Cruise, the 20-year-old daughter of actors Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, has legally dropped her father's surname and now uses the name Suri Noelle, according to public records. The change was confirmed through voter registration documents in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, where she registered in October 2024 as a freshman at Carnegie Mellon University. Pennsylvania law requires residents to register to vote using their legal name.

The name change appears to have been processed in New York, where Suri lived with her mother before moving to Pennsylvania for college. Name change records in New York are typically sealed. Suri has publicly used the name Noelle, her mother's middle name, for several years, first drawing attention when she was listed without the Cruise surname in her high school graduation program in June 2024.

Sources close to the family have indicated the change was a personal decision to establish her own identity and begin her college life independently. Suri is currently a sophomore studying musical theater at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Drama. Her interest in acting developed in high school, where she played Morticia Addams in a production of...