{"id":17515,"date":"2026-03-18T23:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/jay-z-reveals-name-change-with-personal-meaning\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T23:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:56:11","slug":"jay-z-reveals-name-change-with-personal-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/jay-z-reveals-name-change-with-personal-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay-Z Reveals Name Change With Personal Meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20260318\/04743a15-f4a6-46d4-8c0d-4285e5de70e7_1773870680.jpg?fit=around%7C1080:1080&amp;output-quality=90&amp;crop=1080:1080;center,top\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>For more than three decades, Cher was made to believe that her legal first name was Cherilyn. It wasn&rsquo;t until the late &rsquo;70s, when she obtained her birth certificate in order to change her full name to just Cher, that she discovered that she had been registered as &ldquo;Cheryl.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In her 2024 memoir, <em><em>Cher: The Memoir, Part One<\/em><\/em>, the pop icon recalled her mom <strong>Georgia Holt<\/strong>&lsquo;s reaction to this discovery.<\/p>\n<p>She said her mother, who gave birth to her at age 19, responded, &ldquo;Let me look at that!&rdquo; and then, recalling her postpartum experience, added, &ldquo;I was only a teenager, and I was in a lot of pain. Give me a break.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Jay-Z Reveals Name Change With Personal Meaning<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than three decades, Cher was made to believe that her legal first name was Cherilyn. It wasn&rsquo;t until the late &rsquo;70s, when she obtained her birth certificate in order to change her full name to just Cher, that she discovered that she had been registered as &ldquo;Cheryl.&rdquo; In her 2024 memoir, Cher: The&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/jay-z-reveals-name-change-with-personal-meaning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Jay-Z Reveals Name Change With Personal Meaning&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}