The surprising real names of celebrities

Ben Affleck — Benjamin Geza Affleck-Boldt

Boldt is his mother's maiden name. The "Batman v Superman" actor's middle name was inspired by a parent's Hungarian friend.

"When I got to be in fourth or fifth grade, I accused them of being the worst namers in the world! I said, Everyone calls me Ben Gay!" Affleck told Glamour. "But she [Affleck's mother] told me that Geza was a friend of hers who died right around the time I was born, who was a Holocaust survivor in Hungary, and the most exceptional person she knew."

"He had left from a train during the Holocaust taking Jews to death camps, and he went back and saved several others returning to break them out," he continued. "She told me six million Jews were murdered and that men like him were brave and selfless. That name has never been short of a tremendous honor to me since that day."