The Hilarious Way Kit Harington Learned His Real Name at Age 11

What fans probably don't know about Game of Thrones star Kit Harington is that Kit isn't his actual first name. We've all been fed a lie, and apparently so had the actor, because he didn't find out his true name until he was 11. And the story is hilarious.

Kit's real full name is Christopher Catesby Harington, but since his family only ever called him Kit, he didn't know any better. But things changed one day when he took a test at school, writing his name as Kit Harington. His teachers noticed, and quickly told him that wasn't his name. Unsurprisingly, Kit became confused.

"[Kit is] my name. It's short for Christopher. I didn't know my name was Christopher until I was 11," Harington told CNN. "I went to school, you do these exams and I put down Kit Harington and the teacher said, 'That's not your name,' and I said, 'Yeah I think I'd know my own name!' They were like, 'No no your name is Christopher.' I was a bit pissed off with my mum. You didn't tell me my name till I was 11!"

Glamour later asked Harington why his parents had never told him, and he replied:

"I haven't got a clue! I think they could see that I wanted to be Kit, but Christopher was a bit of a tradition. My brother's name is Jack, but his real name is John. Kit is traditionally an offshoot of Christopher, it's just not used that often."

Catesby is actually his mother's maiden name, and when Harington got into acting he almost changed his name to Kit Catesby. Sounds like an old Hollywood stage name. But we guess Kit Harington is good, too.

[h/t: Buzzfeed]