His real name wasn’t Bob

Robert Nesta Marley was Bob's birth name. Other accounts, however, assert that Nesta Robert Marley was his real name rather than Robert Marley. They allegedly changed Bob's name when he was a boy because it was brought up that "Nesta" was a girl's name. Nesta Robert Marley, the person who later became known as Bob Marley, was born in Jamaica's St. Ann Parish in 1945.

Due to the toughness he displayed while growing up in Kingston's Trench Town, Marley also acquired the moniker "Tuff Gong" when he was a teenager later called his record label Tuff Gong, which is now part of Island Records. On the 6th of February 1945, Bob Marley initially opened his eyes. His true name/birth name was Robert Nesta Marley, while other sources state that his birth name was Nesta Robert Marley, based on a myth that a Jamaican passport official reversed Marley’s first and middle names when he was still a boy.