What was Beyoncé's first child with Jay-Z named?

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Beyoncé's first child with Jay-Z is named Blue Ivy Carter.

Blue Ivy was born on January 7, 2012, in New York City. She is the eldest child of Beyoncé and Jay-Z, who married in 2008. The couple later had twins, Rumi and Sir, born in 2017.

Blue Ivy's voice appears on Jay-Z's song “Glory,” released shortly after her birth. The recording includes her cries and made her one of the youngest people to receive a songwriting credit connected with a Billboard-charting song. She also appears in several of her mother's visual and musical projects.

A common mix-up is reversing the children's names or treating Rumi and Sir as older siblings. Blue Ivy is the firstborn, while Rumi and Sir are twins. “Carter” is the family's surname, and Blue Ivy Carter has also received public recognition for her own artistic contributions, including a Grammy Award as a featured performer on Beyoncé's “Brown Skin Girl.”

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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