Bob Dylan’s real name is Robert Zimmerman.

Bob Dylan’s real name is Robert Zimmerman.

poet Dylan Thomas

1. Dylan renamed himself after poet Dylan Thomas. “Straighten out in your book that I did not take my name from Dylan Thomas,” Bob Dylan, nee Robert Zimmerman, told Robert Shelton, the New York Times critic who wrote the 1961 review that propelled him to fame.

Folk-rock singer-songwriter Bob Dylan signed his first recording contract in 1961, and he emerged as one of the most original and influential voices in American popular music.

Dylan gained the most popularity as a baby name in 2003, when it's usage went up by 219.73%. During this year, 572 babies were named Dylan, which was 0.0152% of the baby girls born in the USA that year.

He has released five critically acclaimed albums of original material since then, the most recent being Rough and Rowdy Ways (2020).
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Bob Dylan
Other names	Shabtai Zisel ben Avraham (Hebrew name)
Occupation	Singer-songwriter artist writer activist
Years active	1961–present Blood on the Tracks, the record that famously depicts the demise of the marriage, was released in 1975. The final straw came in February 1977; Sara went down to breakfast at their Malibu home to find Dylan and a girlfriend sitting down to breakfast with her children. She snapped and the two had a raging row.