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Miley Cyrus is Miley Cyrus because she changed her name in 2008 from Destiny Hope Cyrus to Miley Ray Cyrus. She did this because her nickname as a child was "smiley" because she was ALWAYS smiling as a baby. Later in her life, "smiley" was shortened to the name Miley. When she legally changed her name she changed it to Miley RAY Cyrus after her dad. Billy RAY (MILEY RAY!)
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Her birth name was Destiny Hope Cyrus, but in March 2008, when she was 15, she filed papers in the Los Angeles Superior Court to have her name legally changed to Miley Ray Cyrus. Since she always smiled, her parents nicknamed her "Smiley" which was later shortened to "Miley". She changed her middle name to Ray not because her father's middle name is Ray (her father is Billy Ray Cyrus) but to honour her beloved late grandfather (and Billy Ray's father), the Democratic politician Ronald Ray Cyrus, who died February 28th, 2006.Miley Cyrus is her current legal name, hence it is her "real name" at least in some context. However, it was not the name she was born with.Miley Cyrus' birth name was Destiny Hope Cyrus, but when she was 15 she changed her name to Miley. Her friends and family had always called her smiley because she smiled a lot and that changed to Miley. She later legally changed her name.
Miley's birth name was Destiny Hope Cyrus, but she changed her name legally to Miley Ray Cyrus a few years ago. When Miley got the role as Hannah Montana in the TV series, Hannah's other side was names Zoey Stewart, but the director of the series decided to change the name of the character to Miley Stewart.
Miley Cyrus but her real real name is destine hope cyrus