United Kingdom, June 14 -- Keke Palmer's ex-boyfriend "made up" their son's name.

The 31-year-old actress - whose real name is Lauren Keyana - welcomed Leodis into the world with her now ex-partner Darius Jackson in February 2023, and revealed that the former NFL star wanted the moniker to be a combination of both of their names.

Speaking on Scott Evans' House Guest podcast, she said: "Darius actually made his name. He wanted both our names, which is so crazy.

"So yeah, that was him trying to put like Darius and Lauren, like Leodis, like it was just too much, but I said, 'Hey, let's do it. It's adorable."

The former Nickelodeon star joked that "anything went" at that time as far as she was concerned because she was pregnant, and then ...