--- title: Beyoncé's Mom Tina Knowles on Twin Name and Gender Photo description: Beyoncé's fabulous mom, Tina Lawson, has cleared up an important question that the Internet had about the world's most famous twins' names. canonical: https://time.com/4858415/beyoncemom-tina-knowles-twins-instagram-photo/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-14T15:03:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-08T09:23:19.702Z og:title: Beyoncé's Mom Answers Important Question About Twins' Name og:description: The grandma explains all og:url: https://time.com/4858415/beyoncemom-tina-knowles-twins-instagram-photo/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt536fc92d054d3446/6988d5afab6d775dc06aef4c/beyonce-mom-tina-knowles-twins-picture.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Jay-Z Performs At Carnegie Hall To Benefit The United Way Of New York City And The Shawn Carter Foundation - After Party og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Beyoncé's Mom Answers Important Question About Twins' Name twitter:description: The grandma explains all twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt536fc92d054d3446/6988d5afab6d775dc06aef4c/beyonce-mom-tina-knowles-twins-picture.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Beyoncé's Fabulous Mom Answered the Internet's Most Pressing Question About the Twins > Sponsored content. 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Beyoncé’s first photo of twins evokes the same theme as her pregnancy announcement_  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jul 14, 2017 3:03 PM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jul 14, 2017 3:03 PM UTC Because [Beyoncé](http://time.com/4856743/beyonce-highest-paid-musician-2016/) is a kind and benevolent queen, on Friday, she’s blessed the world with [a single, perfect image](http://time.com/4842464/beyonce-jay-z-baby-names/) of [the world’s most famous twins, Sir and Rumi Carter](http://time.com/4656949/beyonces-birth-announcement-internet-reactions/) on their one month birthday. While her caption confirmed the names that the fans had long speculated for the babies and also involved some very excellent emoji usage, the [_Lemonade_](http://time.com/4631309/beyonce-lemonade-impact/) singer left fans curious over the gender of the twins. Luckily, Queen Bey’s [very fabulous mother Tina Lawson](http://time.com/4761319/beyonce-mom-tina-knowles-wearable-art-gala/) cleared up any questions by confirming that Sir and Rumi are a baby boy and a baby girl, respectively. In an equally emoji laden caption, the grandma wrote “So Happy my baby shared a photo of her babies with the world ❤️❤️❤️proud grandma hello Sir Carter and Rumi Carter❤️🙏🏾❤️ Boy and girl what a blessing ❤️.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4858415/beyoncemom-tina-knowles-twins-instagram-photo/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4858415/beyoncemom-tina-knowles-twins-instagram-photo/"},"headline":"Beyoncé's Fabulous Mom Answered the Internet's Most Pressing Question About the Twins","datePublished":"2017-07-14T15:03:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-08T09:23:19.702Z","description":"The grandma explains all","url":"https://time.com/4858415/beyoncemom-tina-knowles-twins-instagram-photo/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","viral","Beyonce"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt536fc92d054d3446/6988d5afab6d775dc06aef4c/beyonce-mom-tina-knowles-twins-picture.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt536fc92d054d3446/6988d5afab6d775dc06aef4c/beyonce-mom-tina-knowles-twins-picture.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Jay-Z Performs At Carnegie Hall To Benefit The United Way Of New York City And The Shawn Carter Foundation - After Party","caption":"Jay-Z Performs At Carnegie Hall To Benefit The United Way Of New York City And The Shawn Carter Foundation - After Party","creditText":"Kevin Mazur—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4858415/beyoncemom-tina-knowles-twins-instagram-photo/","name":"Beyoncé's Fabulous Mom Answered the Internet's Most Pressing Question About the Twins"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Beyoncé Shares First Photo of Twins Sir and Rumi Carter","description":"Beyoncé’s first photo of twins evokes the same theme as her pregnancy announcement","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/kuyMkYgJ/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2017-07-14T14:05:32.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/kuyMkYgJ.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4858415/beyoncemom-tina-knowles-twins-instagram-photo/","duration":"PT33S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4858415/beyoncemom-tina-knowles-twins-instagram-photo/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```