Ultimate Dolph

I always wonder why it says his birth name is "Hans" and he's always and everywhere called "Dolph". Is it kind of "stage name"? lol
Here in Germany the name "Hans" is totally out of trend and it's moreover funny if someones called this way and maybe he won't be that famous if always said "Hans Lundgren" in movies.
Please tell me if you know.

Hi...
Hans is his Birthname adn yes, Dolph is kind of a stage name.
figure Hans wouldnt work in Hollywood

Here in Sweden Hans is a very common name, but i don´t think very many people give that name to there kids today.

Yes, thanks a lot!
If I'd have such a name, I had probably done the same. Kind of "Hans" would already sound very "normal", but I am really happy to not be named like that anyway.

Dolph was his grandfather's name and he started being called that when he started acting. In an interview with Grace (in Interview magazine) Grace refers to him as Hans still. I think the change happened sometime with Rocky IV. All the interviews on tape he is referred to as Dolph, but on one of the Rocky cards, they call him Hans Lundgren.

Terminator, the old names are coming back now. A friend of mine named his son (now 7 or 8 years old, I think) Hans. At the kid's doctor I met a Konrad and I heard that even August (yuck!) is trendy again.

Wow!! I never thought those passed names would come up again...
But why was "Hans" called like his grandfather "Dolph"? Did they look equal or so? Might be possible, right?
At least in my grade there is one boy who's called "Willhelm" and it doesn't really fit to him. lol

I am guessing maybe Dolph's dad did it to honor his father. It is quite common to name a child after a grandfather. My husband's middle name was taken from his grandfather. We will probably do the same when we have a son.

My bf's father would have loved it if we had named one of our sons after him. But no way am I going to name a child Elmar.

But no way am I going to name a child Elmar.

LOL, I wouldn't do so, too.
Maybe "Frederick" or something like that, but Elmar sounds like stuck back into the 40er. XD

Well, even if the spelling is different I always have to think of Elmer Fudd. And who wants a guy like that?

lol... you probably know "Elmar Brand" who is surely the best synchronization speaker for "Gerhardt Schröder", don't you? Well, this is the man I think about if the name "Elmar" is said in any case.

Dawn wrote:Dolph was his grandfather's name

I don't know that, but it's so cute. For me Hans sound better, but finaly it's not important the more important for me is that he's shooting new movies

Yeah I think this is one of the most important things ever. But Hans, well, I think a lot of people would then laugh about him here in Germany.

not as with dolph, which is the diminutive of adolph (Hitler), a name that germans want to forget.

And I don't understand why Hans is a so outdated first name ?!?

Well, at least in Germany, I don't know any child that is named like that. If it's really an unforgetable thing like "(A)Dolph Hi*ler... I dunno. Could also be "(Ru)Dolph".