XXXTentacion's Real Name: Jahseh Dwayne Ricardo Onfroy

Quick answer: XXXTentacion's real name was Jahseh Dwayne Ricardo Onfroy. He was born on January 23, 1998, in Plantation, Florida, and died on June 18, 2018, in Deerfield Beach, Florida. XXXTentacion was his recording and stage name.

Real name and early life

Billboard and The New York Times identify Jahseh Dwayne Ricardo Onfroy as the legal name behind the moniker XXXTentacion (Billboard; NYT). Onfroy is the family surname; Jahseh, Dwayne, and Ricardo are given names. He was raised primarily in Broward County, Florida, and began releasing music in earnest after a juvenile-detention stint, building an early audience on SoundCloud as a solo artist and with the Members Only collective. The stage name—often styled XXXTentacion or XXXTENTACION—was not a legal surname change in the press accounts cited here; it was the brand under which he released songs and albums.

Career highlights

His breakout single “Look at Me!” reached the Billboard Hot 100 around the time of his 2017 release from jail on pending charges. Albums and tracks blending emo rap, trap, and rock textures found a large young audience even as he faced widely reported criminal allegations, including battery charges. After he was shot and killed at age 20 outside a motorsports store in Deerfield Beach on June 18, 2018, “Sad!” rose to No. 1 on the Hot 100; posthumous releases included the Billboard 200 No. 1 album Skins and later collaborations that kept his catalog on the charts. His sound is often credited with shaping emo-rap and SoundCloud-rap aesthetics of the late 2010s. Across that short career, fans searched both the stage name and the birth name; the documented civil name is Jahseh Dwayne Ricardo Onfroy.

Name notes for searchers

Spellings vary (XXXTentacion / XXXTENTACION / X). For biographical facts, prefer Billboard, the Times, and court-adjacent reporting over fan edits. Wikipedia is useful only as a pointer after primary citations.