Tina Knowles Lawson recently revealed the meaning behind the angelic name she gave her eldest daughter Beyonce. “A lot of people don’t know that Beyoncé is my last name. It’s my maiden name,” Tina shared on the first episode of the “In My Head with Heather Thomson” podcast. “My name was Celestine Beyoncé.”
Ms. Lawson says she her brother Skip have the name but various family members have different spellings of the last name.Some family member have the last name “Beyince” because it was spelled incorrectly on a birth certificate. She added, “Because at one time black people didn’t get birth certificates.”
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