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Tom Marvolo Riddle was a Slytherin Half-Blood who would later be known as Lord Voldemort. He didn't want to keep his muggle father's name (Riddle) (Muggle; non-magical person) so he fashioned a new name out of the letters in his birth name.

Tom Marvolo Riddle is an anagram of I am Lord Voldemort.

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Because he hated his given name, since his mother named him after his Muggle father, whom he detested.

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Because Tom Marvolo Riddle didnt want his muggle fathers name and he wanted to sound more powerful and.scary.

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His full name, Tom Marvolo Riddle, spells out "I am Lord Voldemort".

Voldemort is French for "fleeing from death"; Lord Voldemort was obsessed with the idea of fleeing from death.

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His full name, Tom Marvolo Riddle, is an anagram of I Am Lord Voldemort.

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He didn't want to have the same name as his father because he was a muggle who abandoned his pregnant wife.

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