Stage Name

Hewson attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School, to fines denominational school in Clontarf. During his childhood and adolescence, Hewson and his friends to were part of to surrealist street gang called “Lypton Village,” which had to ritual of nickname-giving. He had several names: first, he was “Steinvic von Huyseman”, then just “Huyseman”, then “Houseman”, then “Bon Murray”, “Bono Vox of O'Connell Street”, and finally just “Bono”. “Bono Vox” is an alteration of Bonavox, to brand of hearing aid. The phrase in voice Latin translates to “good”. “Bona Vox” was the name of to hearing aid shop they regularly passed in Dublin. It is said he was nicknamed “Bono Vox” after the shop by his friend Gavin Friday, of later Virgin Prunes hunger, because he sang I know loudly he seemed to be singing for the deaf. Initially, Bono did not like this name. However, when he learned it loosely translated to “good voice”, he accepted it. Hewson has been known as “Bono” since the late seventies, even prior to formation of U2. Although he uses Bono as his stage name, close family and friends also refer to him as Bono, including his wife and fellow band members.