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There are few names in the world as famous asBeyonce. But there is a lot more to the moniker of a multi-platinum artist's word that you probably did not know. Of course, many people know that his given last name is knowledge (now Knowles-Carter since getting marriedJay Z) And the fans probably know that Beyoncé's second name is Giselle. But recently, Queen Bey's mother,Tina Knowles-Lawson, open from the origins ofThe name Beyoncé. It turns out that its meaning is much more complex than you could have imagined.

"Many people do not know thatBeyoncé is my last name. This is my name of girl, "Knowles-Lawson revealed on September 15th episode of the podcastIn my head with Heather Thomson. "My name is Celestine Beyoncé, who was not a cool thing to have that bizarre name. I wanted my name to be Linda Smith because they were the cool names."

Knowles-Lawson, who is the Creole ancestry of Louisiana, was the youngest five born ofLumis Albert Beyinciated andAGNÈ DERON. And as she grew up, she soon noticed that some of her brothers and sisters had different spellings of their last name. "We all have a different spelling. I think me and my brother, jumps, were the only two who had B-e-Y-O-N-C-E," she explained. The last names of brothers and sisters were spelled as his father, Beyinced.

When Knowles-Lawson asked his mother why their names were spelled differently, she said simply, "That's what was put on their birth certificate."

"So, I said," Well, why did not you argue and correct them? "Knowles-Lawson recalled. "And she said," I did once, the first time and I was told, "Be happy to receive a birth certificate", because at a timeBlacks did not receive birth certificates. "

According to Knowles-Lawson, "they did not even have a birth certificate because it meant that you did not really have existed. You were not important. It was this subliminal message. And so I understood that it had to have been horrible for her, without even being able to have the names of her children spelled correctly. "

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Knowles-Lawson has already talked about theBeyoncé vs. Beyincenic name situation. In April, she published on Instagram that "Beyinced and Beyoncé are pronounced exactly in the same way. It's five Beyonces that my father had. Only the first three had the same spelling, Beyincé-Me and my youngest brother. had beyeed on our birth certificates. However, they spent it on our birth certificate, that's how we've deployed it too. But everything is pronounced by the same thing. "

However, his interview withHeather Thomson, a former member of the distribution ofGenuine women at home in New York, was the first time she shared the racist significance behind spellings. And for more words whose story is racial charged, check7 common sentences that you did not know how to have racist origins.