Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-24772621-20140501232434/@comment-1210805-20140505064214

Don't forget that the Uzumaki were a whole clan. It's not inconceivable for people to think that Naruto was the child of another Uzumaki. Not to mention, the Uzumaki had been used as hosts for the fox twice before. Assuming this was known, it's likely that some people could have been lead to believe that they simply sealed it in another member of the clan.