Macaulay Culkin Confirms He Changed His Legal Name

Despite a Hollywood career spanning 40 years, Macaulay Culkin has to remind fans of his “actual name”.

Appearing at an event in Long Beach, California, on Saturday to celebrate his starring role in the holiday classic Home Alone , the actor also acknowledged he’d made good on an eyebrow-raising 2018 pledge.

“My name is Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin,” he told the crowd, according to People .

Though Macaulay’s remark may be puzzling to some fans, it’s actually a nod to his November 2018 appearance on The Tonight Show, in which the actor announced plans to drop his former middle name, Carson, for a different option.

“I felt like, you know, I should probably spruce up my name a little bit,” Macaulay told host Jimmy Fallon at the time. “We’ve narrowed it down to five options.”