Suri Cruise legally drops Cruise, becomes Suri Noelle
Suri Cruise has legally severed ties with estranged father Tom Cruise by dropping his surname and taking Noelle as her last name, Page Six reports. The 20-year-old Carnegie Mellon student registered to vote in Pennsylvania in October 2024 as Suri Noelle — which courts say must match a resident's legal name.
Key Takeaways
- Suri Cruise, 20, has legally changed her last name from Cruise to Noelle, according to Page Six.
- She registered to vote in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, in October 2024 as Suri Noelle while a Carnegie Mellon freshman.
- Pennsylvania courts told Page Six residents must register using their legal name.
- No Allegheny County name-change filing was found; she may have changed it in New York before college.
- She publicly used Noelle at her June 2024 LaGuardia High School graduation and has used it for years.
The Page Six exclusive, backed by voter records, confirms what many fans wondered after Suri's high school graduation: the Cruise surname is no longer her legal last name. She now goes by Suri Noelle.
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How do we know Suri Cruise's name change is legal?
Public records show Suri registered to vote in Pennsylvania — where she currently lives — in October 2024 during her freshman year at Carnegie Mellon University. She registered in Allegheny County as Suri Noelle.
Pennsylvania courts confirmed to Page Six that residents must register to vote using their legal name. That registration is the strongest public signal that Suri Noelle is now her legal moniker.
Page Six also confirmed she did not file a name-change request in Allegheny County, suggesting she may have done so in New York before leaving for college. She previously lived with mother Katie Holmes in New York, where name-change requests are either automatically sealed or sealed upon request.
It remains unclear exactly when Suri Noelle became her legal name, though she has been using it publicly for years.
Why did Suri Cruise choose the surname Noelle?
Noelle is Katie Holmes' middle name. Suri first made headlines for not using Cruise in the ceremony pamphlet at her LaGuardia High School graduation in June 2024.
At the time, a source told Page Six that Suri was "showing praise for her mother" by using Noelle. The then-teen also wanted to "avoid the paparazzi," establish her "own identity," and "start fresh at college," the source said.
Though she has not had a relationship with Tom Cruise, 64, for most of her life, the legal drop of his surname marks a formal break from the family name that defined her childhood fame.
What is Suri Cruise doing now at college?
Suri is studying musical theater in Carnegie Mellon's school of drama. She caught the acting bug in high school as Morticia Addams in "The Addams Family: A New Musical."
In March, she portrayed Angel in "Cosmic Microwave Background," a one-night-only staged reading at Pittsburgh's New Hazlett Theater. Later this week, she is set to star in "Midsummer!" — a modern take on Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" — with fellow CMU students in Pittsburgh. The show is also slated for the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes welcomed Suri in April 2006, married seven months later, and divorced in August 2012. Suri stayed with Holmes. Reps for Tom Cruise and Holmes did not immediately respond to Page Six's requests for comment.