One often-reported story about her is that her parents originally named her "god" (with a lower-case "g"), but then changed it to China. This is actually an urban legend, and results from a sarcastic remark her mother made to a nurse when she was born, which the nurse then passed on to a local newspaper. According to interviews with China and her parents, her name has always been China, that's the name on her birth certificate, and there was never any intention to call her "god".