In a recent interview with Parade, Shia LaBeouf explains the meaning of his name.  Shia told Parade,

In French, LaBeouf means ‘beef,’ but mine is spelled wrong.  It should be ‘LaBoeuf.’  My grandmother was a beatnik lesbian in the 50’s, who hated her family and decided to change the spelling, and it’s been that way ever since.  So you go to France and people are like, ‘LaBeouf? You have an illiterate last name.’  By the way, Shia is a bad four-letter word in French.  So the literal translation of my name is ‘Sh*t the Beef.’  Kind of rock-starry, isn’t it?

I’ve heard of some bad names in my time, but this takes the cake.  And to think there was a time when I actually thought his name was cool.  It makes you wonder what the true meaning of other ‘cool’ celebrity names are.

I guess it’s still better than Zoltan or Pilot Inspektor.  What do you think?