Miley Cyrus has revealed how she has considered dropping her last name to just go under the name Miley.

The singer believed that using the name “Cyrus” too closely links her to her father Billy Ray and her Disney roots.

Cyrus told Notion magazine in an interview: "I was thinking about dropping the Cyrus and just being Miley but there's something powerful about the fact that my name now is like a household name.

"People have this misconception of me that I'm just one of these kids on TV and that now I go off and party and I'm just this ratchet white girl, and I'm not.

"I work really, really hard, I'm just in a different environment. I'm young and living in LA, which is everyone's dream, you know? I'm living it to the fullest. Rather than taking a blessing and making it a curse, it's just like this is what this name is now."

Miley has changed immensely since her Hannah Montana days as is in evidence in the music video for her current single We Can’t Stop. She is seen dancing very provocatively including doing her new favourite, “twerking”.