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AKA is the acronym for Also Known As.
An example would be Superman aka Clark Kent.
It is usually used to either reveal the real name of a person known to the public by a pseudonym (e.g. many artists are known by their pseudonyms) or to show alternative names a person has used (some authors choose to publish by different names when targeting different audiences)
The Aka are an African Pygmy people.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Aka."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A stage name, or a screen name for film stars, is a pseudonym used by performers and actors. People may take on a stage name because their real name is considered dull, amusing for the wrong reasons, or projects the wrong image; or because they wish to remain anonymous in relation to another sphere of work. In past decades stage names were used because certain actors real names were considered too "ethnic". In Britain, the actors' union Equity stipulates that no two members may have the same working name, and therefore actors are often forced to modify their name or take a new one. The Screen Actors Guild has similar rules in the United States.A consideration in choosing a stage name is ease of use. Actor's Equity Association (AEA) advises performers to select a name that is easy for others to pronounce, spell and remember. A survey of the three U.S. regional heads of AEA reveals that a performer whose name is difficult to pronounce, spell, or remember is less likely to be hired than other performers.
Many performers refer to their stage names as their 'professional names'.
Famous stage names include:
- Jack Benny - Benjamin Kubelsky
- The Big Bopper - Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr
- Bono - Paul David Hewson
- David Bowie - David Jones
- Mel Brooks - Melvin Kaminsky
- George Burns - Nathan Birnbaum
- Michael Caine - Maurice Joseph Micklewhite
- Jackie Chan - Chan Kong-sang (Cheng Long was a Chinese screen name)
- Cher - Cherilyn Sarkisian
- Elvis Costello - Declan Patrick Aloysius McManus
- Tom Cruise - Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
- Kirk Douglas - Issur Danielovitch Demsky
- Bob Dylan (after Dylan Thomas) - Robert Allen Zimmerman
- Eminem - Marshall Bruce Mathers III
- Judy Garland - Frances Ethel Gumm
- Whoopi Goldberg - Caryn Elaine Johnson
- Stewart Granger - James Stewart
- Cary Grant - Archie Leach
- Harry Houdini - Ehrich Weiss
- Elton John - Reginald Dwight
- Mrs Jordan - Dorothea Bland (mistress of King William IV of the United Kingdom)
- Boris Karloff - William Pratt
- Danny Kaye - David Daniel Kaminski
- Nathan Lane - Joseph Lane
- Jerry Lewis - Joseph Levitch
- Josef Locke - Joseph McLaughlin
- Linda Lovelace - Linda Susan Boreman
- Madonna - Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone
- Dean Martin - Dino Crocetti
- Freddie Mercury - Faroukh Bulsara
- Marilyn Monroe - Norma Jean Mortenson, later Norma Jean Baker
- Yves Montand - Ivo Livi
- Eric Morecambe - Eric John Bartholomew
- Le Pétomane - Joseph Pujol
- Prince - Prince Rogers Nelson
- Vic Reeves - James Moir
- Mickey Rooney - Joe Yule Jr.
- Axl Rose - William Bruce Rose
- Seal - Sealhenry Olusegun Olumide Samuel
- Slash - Saul Hudson
- Dusty Springfield - Mary O'Brien
- Ringo Starr - Richard Starkey
- Sting - Gordon Sumner
- Ritchie Valens - Ricardo Valenzuela
- Sid Vicious - John Simon Ritchie
- John Wayne - Marion Robert Morrison, later Marion Michael Morrison
- Gene Wilder - Jerome Silberman
- Ernie Wise - Ernest Wiseman
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Stage name."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
AKA | English | Authentication and key agreement | Post & Telecom |
AKA | Greek | συμφωνία επαλήθευσης και κλειδιών | Post & Telecom |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: AKA |
| Specialty definitions using "AKA": SPL. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "AKA" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Faeroese (glide, slip), Sranan (hook). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | This is Homer Simpson, aka Happy Dude (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Agamemnon Busmalis, aka The Mole (Oz; writing credit: Pavel Srut) | |
Movie/TV Titles | AKA (2002) Trinity House aka S O S (1940) Aka Albert Walker (2002) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title | ||
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Theater & Movies | |||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
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| "Aka aquarium" by Denis LaPointe Commentary: "Look like a aquarium." | "The Gherkin 1" by Richard Hewitt Commentary: "Swiss Re's new building AKA The Gherkin, London UK." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| "AKA" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.75% of the time. "AKA" is used about 69 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 92.75% | 64 | 42,009 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.8% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Preposition (except "of") | 1.45% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 69 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "AKA": aka-boy. | |
Ending with "AKA": encyclopedia-aka. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "AKA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 注音符號 (a phonetic notation for Chinese aka bopomofo). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | akaay.(various references) | |
Russian | также известный под именем. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "AKA": abaka, kabaka, kaka, medaka, moussaka, sifaka, taka. (additional references) | |
Words containing "AKA": abakas, breakable, breakables, breakage, breakages, breakaway, breakaways, halakah, halakahs, kabakas, kakapo, kakapos, kakas, katakana, katakanas, kavakava, kavakavas, leakage, leakages, makable, makar, makars, medakas, megakaryocyte, megakaryocytes, megakaryocytic, mistakable, moussakas, nonbreakable, shakable, sifakas, slakable, soakage, soakages, speakable, takable, takahe, takahes, takas, unbreakable, unmistakable, unmistakably, unshakable, unshakably, unslakable, unspeakable, unspeakably, wakanda, wakandas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-k" | |
-1 letter: aa, ka. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-k" | |
+1 letter: arak, kaas, kaka, kana, kapa, kata, kava, taka. | |
+2 letters: aback, abaka, akela, alack, apeak, araks, awake, babka, haika, kabab, kabar, kaiak, kakas, kalam, kalpa, kanas, kapas, kappa, karat, karma, kasha, katas, kavas, kayak, koala, kraal, makar, parka, takas, tanka. | |
+3 letters: abakas, akelas, alaska, alfaki, alkali, alkane, ananke, anorak, arrack, askant, attack, awaked, awaken, awakes, babkas, bhakta, carack, chakra, charka, damask, gagaku, galyak, jackal, kababs, kabaka, kabala, kabars, kabaya, kaftan, kahuna, kaiaks, kakapo, kalams, kalian, kalmia, kalpak, kalpas, kamala, kanban, kantar, kappas, karate, karats, karmas, kasbah, kashas, kavass, kayaks, koalas, kraals, kwacha, kwanza, makars, makuta, markka, medaka, padauk, pakeha, parkas, sanjak, sifaka, takahe, taluka, tambak, tankas, yasmak, zaikai. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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