While most know her by stage name, Keke Palmer was actually born Lauren Keyana Palmer. In an episode of Wired’s “Autocomplete Interview,” where she answered some of the Internet’s most searched questions about her, Palmer explained the origins of her nickname and how it in fact preceded her birth name. “My sister had an imaginary friend named Keke and that’s how I got the nickname. And that’s what informed my full name, Lauren Keyana Palmer,” she said. “Because my mom thought I needed a name that sounded like real chill so I’d get a job. And then I ended up going by Keke Palmer anyway.”
As to how she ended up using Keke as her stage name, Palmer revealed in an interview with Glamour that it was by complete accident. She prefaced by saying that the only people who would call her by her nickname back then was her family. “Then one day, my manager at that time heard my mom call me Keke because I wasn’t listening,” she explained. “He said, ‘That should be her stage name. So it went from being just something that my family called me, to being something that the whole world called me.”
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