suri cruise has legally changed her last name from Cruise to Noelle. The change puts an official step behind a name she had already used in public, and it sharpens the split between her private identity and the surname tied to Tom Cruise.
On Monday, July 27, Page Six revealed that the 20-year-old Carnegie Mellon University student had made the change. In October 2024, she registered to vote in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, under Noelle, a detail that matters because Pennsylvania courts say residents can only register using their legal name.
June 2024 and Allegheny County
June 2024 came first in the paper trail. Suri used Noelle as her surname in the ceremony pamphlet for her high school graduation, then carried that name into voter registration in October 2024. The sequence suggests the switch was not a sudden public gesture but a name she was already using before the legal filing surfaced.
Allegheny County is where the registration record placed the name in October 2024, but Suri did not file a name change request there. That leaves the legal filing outside Pennsylvania, and the source points to New York as a possible earlier location before she moved for her studies at Carnegie Mellon University.
Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise
Noelle is Katie Holmes' middle name, so the choice reads as more than a clean break from Cruise. A source said she is showing praise for her mother and wants her own identity, while also saying the name change will help her avoid the paparazzi and start fresh at college. That is a plain business decision in personal terms: one name for school records, another for a public life she is trying to control.
Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise were married from 2006 to 2012, and Suri was 6 years old when they called it quits. After the divorce, she primarily resided with Katie Holmes in NYC, which makes the shift to Noelle feel less like a surprise than the formalizing of a name she had already been testing in public.
New York and Noelle
The legal filing date and exact location still matter because they determine when the change moved from usage to record. But the practical takeaway is already clear: Suri Cruise is now operating under Noelle across the situations that usually follow a young adult into college and civic life, and the public paper trail has started to match the name she chose months earlier.
