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Actor Rob McElhenney had admitted that changing his name to Rob Mac is “kinda douchey” in a new social media post.
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The actor, best known as Mac in It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia and for his role as the co-owner of Wrexham AFC alongside Ryan Reynolds in Welcome To Wrexham, made the appropriate legal filings earlier this week to have his name officially changed.
Deadline previously reported that one reason for McElhenney’s decision might be that his birth name has proved to be a challenge for audiences around the world to pronounce. In Welcome To Wrexham, McElhenney and Reynolds attempt to invest in football clubs in South America and they repeatedly struggle with the pronunciation.
His name also became the butt of a joke in an SNL sketch in 2023, in which Reynolds made quips alongside the It’s Always Sunny cast. “Pronouncing all those Ns and Es and Hs can perplex ‘em / So here’s a little birthday gift from all of your mates in Wrexham,” Reynolds sang.
McElhenney’s wife Kaitlin Olson added: “Mack instead of Mick / Then Henney does the trick / So get the name correct and show the man some damn respect”.
Now, the actor has addressed changing his name in a new social media video, which you can see here:
I said what I said. pic.twitter.com/lvwKgTBBrx
— Rob Mac (@RMcElhenney) July 1, 2025
“Yes, I’m shortening my name to Rob Mac. Mostly a stage name, but I digress…Is it kinda douchey? Sure. But the amount of time that I have wasted trying to get people to either spell or say my name correctly is literally days of my life. Trust me, I added it up.”
He went on to say he loves his family and the shared heritage of his name but added: “Not only have many generations changed its spelling, the current one was just given to my ancestor by a government official who decided that this was now the spelling.”
He concluded: “Times have changed and most people already call me Rob Mac anyway. My family knows me and loves me regardless of how many syllables I have, and that’s the only thing that I really care about. There are so many things going on in the world, and this is a silly one to continue to waste your time with.”
McElhenney was recently interviewed by NME for the latest entry of Soundtrack Of My Life, in which he shared the songs that mean the most to him.
When asked about “the song I can’t get out of my head”, he responded with the Eagles’ anthem ‘Fly, Eagles, Fly’, a song that had been on loop for him in the lead-up to the Super Bowl.
He also listed songs by The Beatles, Bon Jovi, Rage Against The Machine and Johnny Cash as records that mean a lot to him.
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