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Tina Knowles-Lawson tells how an inaccurate birth certificate lead to Beyoncé's iconic name
Read full article: Tina Knowles-Lawson tells how an inaccurate birth certificate lead to Beyoncé's iconic nameHOUSTON – Have you ever wondered how pop icon Beyoncé received her name? Well, her mother Tina Knowles-Lawson shared the story behind the naming of her daughter on the podcast “In My Head With Heather Thomson.”She said Beyoncé is actually her maiden named, spelled incorrectly by people that didn’t bother to correct it. “It’s interesting because a lot of people don’t know that Beyoncé is my last name,” Knowles-Lawson said on the podcast. My name was Celestine Beyoncé, which at that time was not a cool thing, to have that weird name. When she asked her mother why her last name was spelled incorrectly, her mother said that is what they put on the birth certificate.