Check Out How Your Favorite Musicians Stumbled Into Choosing Their Now-Iconic Names

The Weeknd Left Home Forever On A Weekend

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Chart-topping R&B singer, Abel Makkonen Tesfaye changed his name to The Weeknd for a pretty sentimental reason. The singer told a Reddit Ask Me Anything that he adopted the name when he was 17 and dropped out of school then left home for good on a weekend.

What about the missing E though? As usual with singers, it was dropped because of a copyright issue. A Canadian band already existed called The Weekend, so instead of having to brainstorm a new name he just dropped the E. Without the E the name looks way cooler, so it worked out in his favor.