Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)

There almost might have been more than one Beyoncé in this world.

James Corden and his wife, Julia Carey, welcomed their third child Tuesday, but their daughter’s early arrival caught the couple by surprise.

“We went in for a routine check-up on Tuesday, and suddenly the doctors turned to us and said, ‘Oh no, this is probably happening today. And this baby could arrive in the next few hours.’ Which was a complete shock, we were unprepared,” Corden told his “Late Late Show” audience Thursday.

The couple, who are already parents to son Max and daughter Carey, didn’t have the time to come up with a name, but the funnyman had a joke at the ready when the doctor asked what the baby should be called.

“We still haven’t chosen a name for her yet,” Corden revealed. “After the baby was born, I was crying, my wife was crying her eyes out, the baby’s crying, and the doctor asked about a name. I don’t know why I said it, but I looked at the doctor and said, ‘We’re going to call her ‘Beyoncé’.’ My wife did not think that was funny.”

The situation worsened when the hospital staff took him seriously and started filling out paperwork.

“I had to go over to her and say, ‘Excuse me, there is only one Beyoncé,’” Corden quipped.