Tina Knowles' daughters, Beyonce and Solange, both have unique names ・ and Tina Knowles shared in a recent episode of Vogue's podcast "The Run Through," a story of the origins of both of them.

Let's start with Solange: To find out where her name finally came from, we had to look at what her name was if she were a boy. Knowles revealed that if she had a son, she would have named him Niles, because Solange was invented in the Nile River in Egypt.

"I wanted to name him Niles because I thought I had a boy," Knowles said. "But I hardly knew, here came this girl."Knowles shared that she found Solange's name in a baby book she bought in Paris, she bought for one of her girlfriends, "She was going to have a baby, and the next year I was going to have a baby, so I pulled out that old book," Knowles said. It was.

Solange herself, in an interview with the Evening Standard in 2017, said: "I received some revelations in that I learned that my parents imagined me in Egypt about visiting the Pyramids of Giza.And we connected it to the constellation Orion, which coincides with Giza," Solange said. (Per 6 pages, Solange's tour in 2017 was called Orion's Rise.Intentionally or not, in honor of her name, Solange collaborated with Kendrick Lamar on a song called "The Nile" and was featured on the 2019 Lion King: Gift Soundtrack.

As for Beyonce, her name was the maiden name of her mother Tina and evolved from both "Boyoncé" and "Beyincé," Knowles said in "The Run-Through," adding that she felt it was very important to keep the family name alive because there were "very few" boys in the family. (It is certain that the world will never forget your maiden name, Ms. Tina.

"We have very few boys, so I thought, "Oh, this name is going to be extinct,"" Knowles said. "So it's really good for me to insist on it.

She recalled her eldest son, Beyoncé, as a child, about both daughters she shares with ex・husband Matthew Knowles, saying she was "so shy and a little bullied" but the day she stood up for someone — she stood up for them, not for herself. I have an emotional story about it. I just couldn't — I'm more proud of her.

As for Solange, her youngest had people "signing petitions at school" when she was just fifth grade. "She has always been an activist," Knowles said proudly.