Tom Cruise: "Her Name is Kate Now"  4/27/06

Actress Katie Holmes has changed more than just her religion since she started dating Tom Cruise last year (05) - she's now altered her first name.

Despite her strict Catholic upbringing, the former Dawson's Creek beauty converted to Scientology when she began her relationship with the Mission Impossible III heart-throb, and will bring up their baby daughter Suri in the controversial religion.

After discussing the issue with Cruise, Holmes has decided her Christian name 'Katie' sounds too young for a 27-year-old and is now known to friends and family as 'Kate'.

Cruise explains, "Katie is a young girl's name.

"Her name is Kate now she's a child-bearing woman."