# porn-star name
## English
### Noun

porn-star name (plural porn-star names)
* Alternative form of porn star name.
** 1997, The New Yorker, page 38:Dinner-party guests have noted the popularity of a new parlor game—the porn-star name game, whereby a simple formula is used to discover what name a person would go by if he or she were a porn star.
** 2002, Glamour, page 172:8 Your porn-star name (your first pet’s name plus the name of the street you grew up on)
** 2003, Martin Amis, Yellow Dog, Vintage, published 2005, →ISBN, page 220:‘And your pet’s name plus the name of your street is your porn-star name,’ said David.
** 2005, Susan Wiggs, chapter 6, in Table for Five, MIRA Books, →ISBN, page 93:“Hey, want to know how to figure out your porn-star name?” “My what?” “You know, your porn-star name. Porn stars never use their own names.” […] “Tell me the name of the street you live on.” […] “Now tell me the name of the first pet you ever had.” […] “Then your porn-star name’s Duke Ridgetop.”
** 2009, Alan Smithie, Sperm, Wonderful Sperm!, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 184:Let me see – first pet and mother’s maiden name; my porn-star name will be Muffin Pullman.
** 2010, Roopa Farooki, Half Life, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 235:They would work on their porn-star names, using the name of their first pet (neither of them had a first pet as yet, and so they had infinite choice), and their mother’s maiden name.
** 2010, Rowan Coleman, The Home for Broken Hearts, Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 328:Try the porn-star-name formula. Your first pet’s name combined with the street name where you were born, that’s a good one. […] It does sort of sound more like a porn-star name than a writer’s name.
** 2010, The New York Times Magazine, page 42:It was just a funny name I made up, a porn-star name. There was no such thing as Mayer Hawthorne.
** 2011, Sarah Bird, The Gap Year, Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 77:It was like figuring out what your porn-star name would be except with weather instead of pets.
** 2011, Ali Knight, chapter 17, in Wink Murder, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN:I listed work colleagues old and new, his former girlfriends, his football club, the nickname of his football club, his tortoise’s name followed by the house he grew up in (this was a game we played in the pub years ago, Hercules Hamleigh is a mediocre porn-star name), his favourite holiday destination, where we got married, where he married Eloide, and of course I tried Melody, with and without her surname.
** 2012, Elle Kennedy, Heart Breaker (Out of Uniform), published 2022:But my porn-star name sucks. You know how you’re supposed to take the name of your first pet and pair it with the street you grew up on?
** 2012, Andy Cohen, Most Talkative: Stories from the Front Lines of Pop Culture, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:In the version I knew, you take your middle name, you make it your first name, and for your porn last name you use the name of the street you grew up on. (Or the name of your street now. I gave everybody a choice to make it more fun and because the street that I grew up on was boring.) […] And so we figured out Andy Rooney’s porn-star name: Aitken Partridge.
** 2014, Caitlin Doughty, “The Thud”, in Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematorium, Canongate Books, published 2015, →ISBN:They say the way to figure out your porn-star name is to combine the name of your first childhood pet with the name of the street you grew up on. By that rule, my porn-star name would be Superfly Punalei.
** 2015, Andy Jones, The Two of Us, Washington Square Press, →ISBN, page 110:“So,” says Ivy, stretching the single seductive syllable, “what’s your porn-star name?” […] “My . . . what?” “You know,” says Ivy, “you take the name of your first pet, add your mother’s maiden name, and that’s your porn-star name.”
** 2017, Candi Wall, Home Is Where the Heat Is, Entangled Publishing, →ISBN:Oh, and should I be giving them my real name or do you want me to use some weird formula like my first pet’s name and the street I grew up on to figure out a porn-star name?
** 2018, Jo Jakeman, Sticks and Stones, Vintage, →ISBN:‘[…] You know, your porn-star name?’ Sensing my confusion, she elaborated. ‘It’s the name of your first pet, and then the street you grew up on.’
** 2018, Fiona Wright, The World Was Whole, Giramondo Publishing, →ISBN:(A list of options for security questions, those things it is impossible to forget: what is your mother’s maiden name, what is the name of your first pet; a schoolyard game that dictates that your porn-star name is the combination of your first pet’s name and the street on which you first lived – those things it is impossible to forget.)
** 2019, Erin Gough, Amelia Westlake Was Never Here, Poppy, →ISBN:“Have you ever played that game where you work out your porn-star name?” Harriet stares at me. “My what?” Of course she hasn’t. “What’s the first street you ever lived on?” […] “What’s the name of your first pet?” […] “Then Budgie McGill is your porn-star name.”