Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie’s daughter Vivienne drops her surname 'Pitt'

Brad Pitt and Angelina’s Jolie’s daughter Vivienne announced to drop her surname “Pitt”.

According to the reports obtained from Los Angeles County Superior Court by PEOPLE, Vivienne shared the proof of publication and confirmed her intent to change her surname.

The legal notice was published in the Los Angeles Daily Journal that intent to change her name from “Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt” to “Vivienne Marcheline Jolie”, A significant step according to California law.  Earlier, Vivienne’s legal notice was published on July 24, July 31, August 7 and August 14, according to court documents.

The request has not yet been granted. Next steps include a court hearing, set for November 2, to further discuss Vivienne’s petition. Court documents regarding Vivienne’s proof of publication noted that any person who objects to the name change “must file a written objection that includes the reason for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard.” That person or persons must also appear in person at the court hearing. She listed the reason for the name change as “personal” in those court documents.

Vivienne filed the initial petition requesting that her legal name be changed from “Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt” to “Vivienne Marcheline Jolie” in Los Angeles County Superior Court on July 21, per court documents obtained by PEOPLE at the time.

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The filing marked Vivienne’s latest public move to distance herself from the Pitt surname. In May 2024, Vivienne was credited as “Vivienne Jolie” in the Playbill for Broadway’s The Outsiders, which she helped produce alongside her mother. Her newspaper ad also comes roughly one month after her siblings Zahara, 21, and Maddox, 25, filed the same notice to drop “Pitt” from their names and published similar notices in the L.A. Daily Journal in order to comply with California law.

Zahara’s hearing regarding her name change petition is scheduled for September 28, while Maddox’s hearing is scheduled for September 14. Zahara dropped her father’s last name while walking across the stage at her graduation from Spelman College on May 17. She was listed as “Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt” on the commencement program, but her name was read as “Zahara Marley Jolie” when she walked across the stage.

In August 2024, PEOPLE also confirmed that Jolie’s daughter Shiloh, who was born Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, had legally changed her name to Shiloh Jolie. Shiloh, now 20, filed to change her surname on May 27 of that year, which was also the then-teen’s 18th birthday.

Shiloh’s attorney, Peter Levine, spoke at the time of the “significant decision,” calling her “a young adult who has made an independent and significant decision following painful events, and is merely following legal process.”

“This is the result of a prolonged campaign of alienation of children against their parent,” a source close to Pitt told PEOPLE in July 2026. “It’s an incredibly sad reality, but it’s not surprising after years of one parent weaponizing the children against the other one with no regard for the consequences.”

Vivienne, who was born alongside her twin brother, Knox, in July 2008, is the youngest of Jolie and Pitt’s six children. In 2024, a source told PEOPLE that Pitt has “virtually no contact” with his adult children. At the time, he still had visitation with his younger kids, but they have all since become legal adults.