Olivia Wilde Reveals Real Last Name Pronunciation
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Don’t worry if you’ve pronounced Olivia Wilde’s name wrong, darling.
Most people don’t know that the 42-year-old’s real name, Olivia Cockburn, is actually pronounced like “Coburn.”
“It’s a Scottish name,” the Don’t Worry Darling director said to Dax Shepard on the June 29 episode of Armchair Expert. “And it’s very much like ‘A Boy Named Sue.’ You know what I mean? Like it’s character building.”
As one may expect, it wasn’t easy growing up with a suggestive last name—even if her parents are accomplished journalists Andrew Cockburn and Leslie Cockburn. Although she admitted she was sometimes bullied because of her name, Wilde found a silver lining in the teasing.
“It was an early important lesson in like laughing along, not in a way that was like giving into the bullies,” she added. “In a way that, I don’t know, just like I thought it was funny too.”
But regardless of their names, Wilde holds her family in high regard, noting how much she looks up to all of her relatives.