Zahara Jolie-pitt Files to Change Name to Zahara Jolie at 21

zahara jolie-pitt has filed to change her name to Zahara Jolie, setting up a 28 September court hearing on the motion. The 21-year-old daughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt is now seeking to make public what she has already done in selective settings.

Spelman College and May

In 2023, she introduced herself as Zahara Marley Jolie during her Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority induction ceremony at Spelman College in Atlanta. In May, she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and again left off Pitt from her name, making the filing a formal step after two earlier public uses of Jolie alone.

28 September Hearing

Documents obtained by In Touch magazine say the request is for Zahara Jolie instead of Zahara Jolie-Pitt. The hearing gives a judge a date to rule on the motion, which turns the change from a family detail into a legal filing with a set outcome point.

Public Name, Private Record

The practical difference here is straightforward: the name she has used in public already appears to be the one she wants on the record. That creates a cleaner path than a one-off announcement, because the filing aligns the court process with the name she has shown at Spelman and at graduation.

For readers following the family, the key point is not a celebrity flourish but the document trail. Zahara has already signaled the change twice in public, and the September hearing is where that preference either becomes official or waits for another round of legal procedure.