The actor honoured a 2018 Twitter poll to decide his new middle name
By Victoria Luxford 25th November 2025
Macaulay Culkin. CREDIT: Rodin Eckenroth/WireImage via Getty Images
Macaulay Culkin has revealed he has changed his legal name, honouring a Twitter/X poll he conducted in 2018.
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The beloved Home Alone star is known for his witty posts on social media, and in 2018, he ran a poll where fans could decide his new middle name. The eventual winner was “Macaulay Culkin”, and the actor revealed he did indeed make that name official.
Advertisement“My name is Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin,” he said during a Q&A session at A Nostalgic Night With Macaulay Culkin last Saturday (November 22), at the Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Center in California.
During the event, which was reported by People, he reminded the audience of the other options, which included “The McRib Is Back” and “Kieran”, a nod to his Succession-starring brother.
“Macaulay Kieran Culkin. That would be great. I love my brother. Between me and him we have exactly one Oscar,” he joked, referencing Kieran’s win for A Real Pain earlier this year.
Regarding the eventual winner, he explained: “The final vote was ‘Macaulay Culkin’, so my name is Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin. If somebody comes up to me at the airport and says, ‘Excuse me, are you Macaulay Culkin?’ I can say, ‘Well, Macaulay Culkin is my middle name.’” He concluded: “I did it all for that one joke.”
RecommendedCulkin was one of the biggest box office stars of the ‘90s as a child actor, before leaving the limelight in his early teens. In recent years, he has embraced the nostalgia surrounding Home Alone, appearing in Google ads paying homage to his role.
He also has other projects on the horizon, including a role in the second season of Fallout, with his “crazy genius” character introduced in the show’s latest trailer.
