Country Stars’ Real Names: Jason Aldean

Real Name: Jason Aldine Williams

There were a handful of basketball players named Jason Williams around the time Jason Aldean got his start in country music, so perhaps the singer felt his given name was too generic and forgettable. He changed the spelling of his middle name to that was easier to pronounce, but country radio DJs still messed it up, calling him Jason "All-deen" until word got out about how it's correctly pronounced.