2006年，她告诉纽约时报, "When you’re performing on stage, you never really have time to go into the bathroom and close the door. So, if you get a little gassy, you’ve got to let it go. So, people used to say to me, 'You’re like a whoopee cushion.' And that’s where the name came from."
歌手在2020年告诉大都会, "I think I had the foresight to know that being me wasn’t enough. I had to become somebody completely different. At the time, I felt that Ashley didn’t deserve to be famous and successful because she wasn’t that special, but if I made Halsey, maybe she could be. [Changing my name] gave me the opportunity to create a new persona that wasn’t bound by the expectations I had for myself or the limitations that others placed on me because of my upbringing or my socioeconomic situation."
15。弗兰克·海洋（Frank Ocean）出生于克里斯托弗·埃德温·布雷克斯（Christopher Edwin Breaux），但合法地将他的名字改名为克里斯托弗·弗朗西斯·海洋（Christopher Francis Ocean）。
2011年，这位歌手告诉复杂的，“去年我在生日那天更改了我的名字。这是我在2010年所做的最有能力的狗屎。don’t like your name, then change your name. I’m only a few steps into the process, so I probably shouldn’t even be talking about this, but by the beginning of summer, I’ll be straight. I’ll be boarding planes as Christopher Francis Ocean."
