Although he assumed use of his stepfather's surname, it was not until Billy ( as he was known then ) turned fifteen that he formally adopted the surname Clinton as a gesture toward his stepfather.

Born in McComb, Mississippi, as Ellas Otha Bates, he was adopted and raised by his mother's cousin, Gussie McDaniel, whose surname he assumed, becoming Ellas McDaniel.

Chen adopted a daughter in 1924, named Yaoguang ( 瑤光 ), who later adopted her mother's surname.

Avis subsequently married Robert Parsons, whose surname was adopted by Ingram ( henceforth he would be known as Gram Parsons ).

The surname Kissinger was adopted in 1817 by his great-great-grandfather Meyer Löb, after the Bavarian spa town of Bad Kissingen .< ref >

In 1974, Jeffry Hyman co-founded the punk rock band the Ramones with friends John Cummings and Douglas Colvin, upon which point all three adopted stage names using " Ramone " as their surname: Cummings became Johnny Ramone, Colvin became Dee Dee Ramone, and Hyman became Joey Ramone.

His father had been born McCoy but took the surname of his neighbors, who adopted him after his own parents had died within a year of each other.

Out in Forest Hills, Queens, several miles from lower Manhattan, the members of a newly formed band adopted a common surname.

She then adopted the surname Madikizela-Mandela.

Actors who are members of a marginalized ethnic or religious group have often adopted stage names, typically changing their surname or entire name to mask their original background.

The princess's adopted Korean name is Heo Hwang-ok, who was the first queen of Geumgwan Gaya Dynasty and is the ancestor of the Korean Kim family of Kimhae and the Heo surname lineages.

He adopted part of his mother's maiden name, " Novello " as his professional surname, although he did not change it legally until 1927.

The Queen's relatives also abandoned their German titles, and adopted the British surname of Cambridge ( derived from the Dukedom held by Queen Mary's British grandfather ).

He thereafter adopted the surname Pitt Rivers in honour of his benefactor.

( Among findings were that no slaves adopted Jefferson as a surname, but many had their own surnames as early as the eighteenth century.

Notable examples include David Tennant, born David McDonald, who said in an interview that he adopted the surname " Tennant " after seeing Neil Tennant in a copy of Smash Hits, Nathan Lane, whose birth name Joseph Lane was already in use, Stewart Granger, whose birth name was James Stewart, and Michael Keaton, born Michael Douglas.

Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Piero Filiberto Guglielmi adopted the stage name Rudolph Valentino in part because American casting directors found his original surname difficult to pronounce.

Hal Linden, born Harold Lipshitz, adopted his stage name for fear that the embedded obscenity in his original surname could cost him work.

In some cases, members of Plains tribes adopted the Han surname Pan ( 潘 ) as a modification of their designated status as Fan ( 番: " barbarian ").

Tatars in Poland sometimes have a Muslim surname with a Polish ending: Ryzwanowicz ; another surname sometimes adopted by more assimilated Tatars is Taterczyński, literally " son of a Tatar ".

He adopted the surname " Denver " after the capital of his favorite state, Colorado.

In 1896, he adopted the title of Zia-ul-Millat-Wa-ud Din (" Light of the nation and religion "); and his zeal for the cause of Islam induced him to publish treatises on jihad.

The " warrior " derivation was adopted by the linguist, Julius Pokorny, who presented it as being from Indo-European * bhei ( ə )-, * bhī -, " hit ;" however, not finding any Celtic names close to it ( except for the Boii ), he adduces examples somewhat more widely from originals further back in time: phohiio-s -, a Venetic personal name ; Boioi, an Illyrian tribe ; Boiōtoi, a Greek tribal name (" the Boeotians ") and a few others.

To that end, he adopted the title of Princeps (" first citizen ") and some years after the victory was awarded the title of Augustus by the Roman Senate.

In Greek, the adjective kyriak-ós /- ē /- ón means " belonging, or pertaining, to a Kýrios " (" Lord "), and the usage was adopted by early Christians of the Eastern Mediterranean with regard to anything pertaining to the Lord Jesus Christ: hence " Kyriakós oíkos " (" house of the Lord ", church ), " Kyriakē " (" day of the Lord ", i. e. Sunday ), or " Kyriakē proseukhē " ( the " Lord's prayer ").

What began with rules (" canons ") adopted by the Apostles at the Council of Jerusalem in the first century has developed into a highly complex legal system encapsulating not just norms of the New Testament, but some elements of the Hebrew ( Old Testament ), Roman, Visigothic, Saxon, and Celtic legal traditions.

During the Danish-Norwegian personal union, Dannebrog (" Danish cloth ") was also the flag of Norway and continued to be, with slight modifications, until Norway adopted its current flag in 1821.

Beginning with John the Faster, the Bishop of Constantinople ( John IV, 582-595 ) adopted as a formal title for himself the by-then-customary honorific, Ecumenical Patriarch (" pre-eminent father for the civilized world ") over the strong objections of Rome: a title based on the political prestige of Constantinople and its economic and cultural centrality in the Empire.

" Orthodox ", from Greek orthos (" right ", " true ", " straight ") + doxa (" opinion " or " belief ", related to dokein, " to think ") was adopted by the Church in order to distinguish itself from what was becoming a larger and larger body of non-orthodox Christian denominations.

Because of the vulnerability of a player in such a position, the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) and the National Federation of State High School Associations (" Fed ") have adopted rules providing that if a player is positioned at least 7 yards behind the neutral zone to receive a snap, opponents are not to deliberately contact the snapper until one second after the snap ( NCAA ), or until the snapper has a chance to react ( Fed ).

Despite the fact that Parsons only contributed two new songs to the album (" In My Hour of Darkness ", " Return of the Grievous Angel "), Parsons was highly enthused with his new sound and seemed to have finally adopted a serious, diligent mindset to his musical career, eschewing most drugs and alcohol during the sessions.

The constitution of 1876 adopted for the first time the name " España " (" Spain ") for the Spanish nation, and from then on monarchs used the title of " King of Spain ".

Himmler adopted the doctrine of Auftragstaktik (" mission command "), whereby orders were given as broad directives, with authority delegated downward to the appropriate level to carry them out in a timely and efficient manner.

The number system of the English language is of this type (" three hundred four "), as are those of other spoken languages, regardless of what written systems they have adopted.

The common contemporary Latin legal term used in documents of the Holy Roman Empire was for a long time regnum (" rule, domain, empire ", such as in Regnum Francorum for the Frankish Kingdom ) before imperium was in fact adopted, the latter first attested in 1157, whereas the parallel use of regnum never fell out of use during the Middle Ages.

They adopted the term (" the Third Empire " – usually rendered in English in the partial-translation " the Third Reich "), first used in a 1923 novel by Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, that counted the mediaeval Holy Roman Empire as the first and the 1871-1918 monarchy as the second, which was then to be followed by a " reinvigorated " third one.

Some council-member states proposed an additional protocol to the Council of Europe Cybercrime Convention, addressing materials and " acts of racist or xenophobic nature committed through computer networks "; it was negotiated from late 2001 to early 2002, and, on 7 November 2002, the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers adopted the protocol's final text titled Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cyber-crime, Concerning the Criminalisation of Acts of a Racist and Xenophobic Nature Committed through Computer Systems, (" Protocol ").

He adopted the title Imperator totius Hispaniae (" Emperor of all Hispania ", referring to all the Christian kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula, and not just the modern country of Spain ).

The word Shinto (" Way of the Gods ") was adopted from the written Chinese ( 神道, ), combining two kanji:, meaning " spirit " or kami ; and, meaning a philosophical path or study ( from the Chinese word dào ).

The group comprised five members, who each later adopted nicknames initially ascribed to them: Melanie Chisholm (" Sporty Spice "), Emma Bunton (" Baby Spice "), Melanie Brown (" Scary Spice "), Victoria Beckham ( née Adams ) (" Posh Spice "), and Geri Halliwell (" Ginger Spice ").

Exploiting the embellished legend of his frontier days with his father, Lincoln's supporters adopted the label of " The Rail Candidate ".

In a generous act by his father, he was adopted and raised in Vienna by his childless aunt Archduchess Marie Christine of Austria and her husband Albert of Saxe-Teschen.

The couple adopted Katherine Lester in the early 1920s ; her father had been killed in World War I and her mother had died of tuberculosis.

Caligula's father Germanicus, the nephew and adopted son of Emperor Tiberius, was a very successful general and one of Rome's most beloved public figures.

As Marcus Aurelius and his adopted brother Lucius Verus had done a hundred years before them, Gallienus and his father divided the Empire ; Valerian struck for the East to stem the Persian threat and Gallienus remained in Italy to repel the Germanic tribes on the Rhine and Danube.

The " father of Wicca ", Gerald Gardner, who adopted Margaret Murray's thesis, claimed Wicca was a modern survival of an ancient pan-European pagan religion.

Because of violent behavior on the part of the father, the brother was taken in at the age of 3 by foster parents, who adopted him later.

Such names are inherited from father to son ; but a sonless Roman aristocrat quite commonly adopted an heir, who would also take the family name-this could be done in his will.

It appears this child was adopted because the mother has only recently " found him " and " hadn't got the heart to tell him who his father was ".

Mao Zedong would describe his father as a stern disciplinarian, who would often punish his son and other children – two boys, Tse-min ( b. 1896 ) and Tse-tan ( b. 1905 ), and an adopted girl – for any perceived wrongdoings, sometimes by beating them.

The shepherdesses ' father Hobab adopted him as his son.

He formally adopted her in 1935, and she would always refer to him as her father.

Nero's father had been employed as a praetor and was a member of Caligula's staff when the latter traveled to the East ( some apparently think Suetonius refers to Augustus ' adopted son Gaius Caesar here, but this is not likely ).

Rather than focusing on punitive expeditions favoured by his father, the young Prince Henry adopted a strategy of economic blockade.

He adopted the name because his father, Oxford, was already using it as a pen-name for his plays.

Eugene also adopted various provisions for the care of the poor, widows and orphans, and on that account received the name of " father of the people ".

Attempts at revolt, such as that of Ambiorix in 54 BC, had secured only local support, but Vercingetorix, whose father, Celtillus, had been put to death by his own countrymen for seeking to rule all of Gaul, managed to unify the Gallic tribes against the Romans and adopted more current styles of warfare.

Although not normally adopted under Roman Law, the children, called alumni, were reared in an arrangement similar to guardianship, being considered the property of the father who abandoned them.

Like other contemporary arrangements, the agreement stressed the responsibility of the adopted rather than adopter, focusing on the fact that, under the contract, the adoptive father was meant to be cared for in his old age ; an idea that is similar to the conceptions of adoption under Roman law.

Screen names are also used to create a more marketable name, as in the case of Creighton Tull Chaney, who adopted the pseudonym Lon Chaney, Jr., a reference to his famous father Lon Chaney, Sr. On the converse, Nicolas Cage adopted this stage name instead of his real name, Nicolas Kim Coppola, in order to conceal the appearance of nepotism as the nephew of famous director Francis Ford Coppola.

According to the pianist ’ s son Dave Guaraldi, Vince was adopted by Tony Guaraldi, after Vince ’ s mother, Cannella Guaraldi, née Marcellino, split with his biological father, Vince Delaio ( sp ?).