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Tom Holland Reveals Nickname for Wife Zendaya in the Sweetest Way
A brand new day presents a brand new opportunity to love Tom Holland and Zendaya even more.
Because while the Spider-Man: Brand New Day costars have had several sweet—and super stylish—moments throughout their international press tour, there was one in particular that recently left fans tangled up in a web of heartwarming emotions.
During their red carpet stop in Rome on June 23, Tom was speaking to a reporter but couldn't remember the name of a certain place. Instead of calling Spider-Man for help, he looked to Zendaya—his partner in work and in life as they recently tied the knot—to save the day. However, Tom didn’t refer to her as "Zendaya" or "Z," which he has tattooed on his ribcage. Instead, he used her middle name to get her attention amongst the crowd.
"Maree!" the actor called out in a video shared by Entertainment Tonight. "What’s the name of that place?"
Indicating that Tom had used the nickname before, Zendaya quickly turned her head and replied, “Giolitti's!" As she then clarified to the reporter, "That's where I'm going after this.”
Zendaya’s full name is actually Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman. "I have a middle name and two last names technically," she explained to The Drama costar Robert Pattinson during their GQ Friendship Quiz in April. And when the Twilight alum couldn’t list them all, the Euphoria actress gave him a pass. "It is Googleable,” she added, "but it is not something that I just go out and just tell people, 'Hello, my name is…'"
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And while Zendaya hasn’t revealed the inspiration behind them all, she has shared the origin of her first name.
"OK, so technically, it’s a long story,” she told Vogue’s 73 Questions in 2019, "but it’s based off a word that means to give thanks."
If you’d be thankful to learn more stars’ middle names, keep reading.
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Leonardo DiCaprio
Once upon a time...in Hollywood, there was an actor named Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio. As the Oscar winner explained to David Letterman in 1995, "My mother's German, and my dad's Italian."
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Harry Styles
When it comes to the singer's middle name, all roads lead to one direction: Edward.
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Oprah Winfrey
The media mogul's middle moniker is Gail—just like her journalist bestie Gayle King.
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Sandra Bullock
Just call the Miss Congeniality actress Miss Sandra Annette Bullock.
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Taylor Swift
If you've got a blank space, baby, I'll write her name: The Grammy winner's middle moniker is Alison.
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Zendaya
No need to search further on the web for the Spider-Man star's full name: Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman.
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Timothée Chalamet
Call the actor by his name: Timothée Hal Chalamet.
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Zoë Kravitz
No lie: At one point, the Big Little Lies actress considered dropping the last name of her Grammy-winning dad Lenny Kravitz and going by her first and middle monikers: Zoë Isabella.
"I kind of tried to do it," she said on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast in 2024, "but it just didn’t stick." That, and she admitted cutting her surname made her father "a little sad."
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Meryl Streep
Please bore someone else with your questions about The Devil Wears Prada star's middle name. Following family tradition, Streep's first name is actually Mary—the same moniker as her grandmother, mom and eldest daughter—and her middle name is Louise.
"Louise was my mother's best friend, Louise Buckman, so I was named after her," the Oscar winner shared on The Graham Norton Show in 2015. "But I was always called Meryl."
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Reese Witherspoon
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Jennifer Aniston
We'll be there for you—to share the Friends alum’s middle name, which she revealed in the same interview is Joanna.
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Billie Eilish
You'll be happier than ever to learn the Grammy winner's full name: Billie Eilish Pirate Baird O'Connell.
While her last names come from parents Maggie Baird and Patrick O'Connell, her first middle name Eilish is the Gaelic version of Elizabeth, according to EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum. As for Pirate, her then 4-year-old brother Finneas called her that before she was born.
"They called me Pirate for months, and they were kind of planning on naming me Pirate," the singer revealed in her 2020 audiobook Billie Eilish - In Her Own Words. "And soon before I was born, my grandfather died, and his name was William, a.k.a. Bill, Billie."
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Michael B. Jordan
Ever wonder what the B. in Michael B. Jordan stands for? Well, the Oscar winner confirmed it's for Bakari, which means “of noble promise."
"I got the name fresh out the womb," he told Revolt in 2025, "and I try to live in that purpose every day since."
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Samuel L. Jackson
And if you’re curious about the L in Samuel L. Jackson, let’s land that plane: The Snakes on a Plane actor’s middle name is Leroy.
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Blake Lively
Hey, Upper East Siders. While you might know the Gossip Girl alum was born with the surname Brown (Lively is her mom's last name), you may not be familiar with her middle name: Ellender.
"It’s not a name," she told MTV UK in 2024. "My mom, I think, made it up by accident."
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Nicole Kidman
Oh baby! The Babygirl star’s middle name is Mary.
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Drew Barrymore
Never been kissed heard the story behind the actress’ name?
"My great grandfather was named Herbert Blyth, and then there was this family called the Drews that was an acting family," she explained on The Drew Barrymore Show in May 2026. "And then when Herbert Blyth met Georgiana Drew, he changed his name for a stage name and named himself Maurice Barrymore. So, there’s the Blyth, the Barrymore and the Drew, hence I’m Drew Blyth Barrymore."
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Tom Hanks
No need to cast away your hopes of learning the Oscar winner's middle name. It's Jeffrey.
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Eddie Murphy
If the Coming to America actor’s full name isn’t coming to mind, it’s Edward Regan Murphy.
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Owen Wilson
Here’s a crash course on the Wedding Crashers alum’s middle name Cunningham. “That’s my mother’s maiden name,” he shared on The Late Late Show in 2023 “So, both my brothers—we all have the same middle name.”
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