The former couple’s only child opted not to use Cruise for her 2024 high school graduation


Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise
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Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' daughter Suri has legally dropped her father's last name.

The 20-year-old college student legally changed her last name to Noelle from Cruise, according to the voter registration records obtained by PEOPLE. Page Six was first to report the news.

Suri currently attends Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and registered to vote in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania during her freshman year in October 2024. Her registration reads Suri Noelle. Noelle is also Holmes' middle name.

Cruise and Holmes welcomed Suri in April 2006, married in November 2006, and divorced in 2012.

Months before Suri registered to vote as Suri Noelle, she used the name for her high school graduation in June 2024. That same weekend, Cruise was seen attending Taylor Swift's Eras tour at London's Wembley Stadium.

Two months later, in celebration of her daughter's accomplishment, Holmes made rare comments about Suri while speaking to Town & Country.

"I'm proud of my daughter. Of course, I will miss the close proximity, but I'm really proud of her and I'm happy," the proud mom told the outlet, adding, "I remember being this age, this time of beginnings. It's exciting to learn about yourself, and I loved that time, so it makes me happy to think about it like that."

Then in December 2024, Holmes publicly addressed comments about Suri's relationship with Cruise, 64, denying the reports that she inherited a trust fund from her father.

At the time, Holmes, now 47, shared a post on Instagram disputing a report from the Daily Mail, that Suri gained access to her trust fund when she turned 18. "Completely false," Holmes wrote over a screenshot of the article. "Daily Mail you can stop making stuff up."

"Enough," she added in the caption.

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Although Suri has remained out of the spotlight, she was photographed visiting her mother on the set of Happy Hours in New York City in August 2025. The mother-daughter duo was photographed walking down the city streets before Holmes was on set filming with her Dawson's Creek costar Joshua Jackson.

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