There was a story that Bob Marley 's name Nesta sounded like a girl 's name .
Bob Marley 's full name is Robert Nesta Marley , though some sources give his birth name as Nesta Robert Marley , with a story that when Marley was still a boy a Jamaican passport official reversed his first and middle names because Nesta sounded like a girl 's name .
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