It is often reported he was named Brooklyn because he was conceived in Brooklyn, New York. However, according to his mother's 2001 autobiography Learning to Fly, she and her husband simply liked the name. His mother recalled, it was only after choosing the name they "realised how appropriate it was because it was in New York that [she] found out [she] was pregnant, and where David came after the World Cup."[6] Beckham's father is of partial Jewish descent.[7][8][9]