Where Do African American Names Come From?
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What about the letter names like AJ CJ KC PJ, are those african american
names?
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Hello can you please answer this when you get the chance.
So the word Subtly is oddly spelt care to explain why some time?
NameExplain- I would love to learn about why the names are chosen- what the style of name represents. For that matter I would love to know why white people make certain curious choices of names, particularly some which- to me at least- are suggestive of childhood, like Cody or Tucker or Tyler or Skylar.
Lastly may I suggest watching George Carlin's routine about "guys named Todd"?
Colin Powell?
I think the main reason these names are going into decline is because of the negative associations attached to them and the fear of parents that they’ll disadvantage their kids by giving them these names.
I would argue that's not the same, Phobos. Giving your child a name that connects them to their culture/ancestry is not the same as giving your child a strange abstract name that you can use to show off to others.
@@Nell-r0se it's not the same. Being disadvantaged because your name is Lamar is not the same as your name being something absurd - like Northwest (who ironically will not have to contend with many of those disadvantages anyways due to parents financial status lol).
Phobos Maelstrom
I don't think he's completely wrong, its less the absurdity of the name and more that certain types of people you can imagine throwing the obvious black guy name resume in the trash
The presenter said that these names were popular in the 60s and 70s. That's 40 or 50 years ago. We don't need to look for race-specific reasons why they are becoming less popular in the 2010s, because it's quite usual for there to be a large turnround of names in such a long period.
I love how white people make fun of all these "outrageous" African American names, but end up naming their children Makayleigh
Trisha Pastas funny because I know a girl named kyleigh
@@NoName-be8vp I'm so sorry
Don’t understand the whole Leigh ending
@@steedfairley190 supposed to be cool and unused
I sat in the classrom with a Ashlie and another Ashlee ( true story ). both of them girls went by ash-ley lol!
The reason why that tend is reversing in the Black American community is because of discrimination, not integration. A "Black" name doesn't look good on a resume in America.
What looks good depends upon who's doing the looking. It's more empowering to not give bigots your skill or your labor.
Right, I remember a black woman telling me that when she worked in Human Resources, she seen white people literally tossing resumes into the trash with black sounding names.
Happened in France some weeks ago and shit's gone public since then, a HR woman tossed countless resums with arabic-sounding names on it without even reading them. Talk about people having the same chances...
I also think it's just a shift in culture aswell. I know some black people who have those kinds of names, but still make fun of them and think they sound wierd.
Maybe there's a reason for that.
This video still got backlash, not for being racist but for people getting mad at this guy for apologizing about maybe offending someone. Lol, y'all too much.
Marijka Tilton completely agree, people just love getting offended on TH-cam lol
Haha! Right! Didn't even look at that way. Can't please everybody.
The older I get the more I love dogs... and other animals...
humans are seriously flawed...
My Dog didn't care what colour her friends were or what their names were...
People are angry because they didnt have a valid excuse to get angry. Lol.
I'm offended by your comment
They are usually French, Arab and Italian names tweaked
Saved you 7 minutes
Tweaked yea right let's make it sound intelligent
King 51 or Irish
Hebrew/biblical
@@juneshortall8083 behati prinsloo.
Most names like Natasha & Latasha are actually Russian
I want to weigh in...Before the 70's, most African Americans got their names from the Bible or used an English common name (due to slavery). My mother told me after WW2 (she was a baby boomer), there was a fairly long trend of many black girls given French names like Paulette, Claudine, Yvette, Josephine, Cheryl, etc (this expanded into the seventies) and boys got names like Maurice, Lamont, Tremaine, Deon, and Marquis or a Roman name like Marcellus, Demetrius and Antonio (Roman roots) because of the popularity of Cassius Marcellus Clay (aka Muhammad Ali)..Also in the seventies, many black boys were given Arabic names (due to the popularity of the Nation of Islam and black power movement), or the names of sports heroes or a combination of all of them. Then, in the late 70's and early eighties, another trend occurred. You had the lower class African American single mothers make up silly names that they thought sounded French but actually weren't, combining Arabic elements with French...Names like Quanisha, LaKeisha, Dejeunae, Shemica...These names became the "ghetto" names because many girls in the ghetto were given these. Middle class to upper class blacks pretty much kept it Bible, French, English common, or Arabic (if they were largely Muslim)...Now, as a black person who is 44 and a teacher, I see another trend where black kids (mostly boys) are being given common Irish names like Kevin (although that was also popular in the 70's), Shawn, Keith, etc...And black girls are being named Ashley, Brianna, Alexis, and Jasmine. I swear, I've seen more black girls with the name Ashley, I think every black girl is an Ashley.
Also the reason why in the 30s and 40s some northern black people had Irish surnames was because they along with Irish Americans were still low on the totem poll in the US and so came across one another and adopted names. An example is Shaquille O'Neal
Ah the good ole irish getting in everywhere top o the mornin from dublin ireland
ive actually heard a lot of English women with 'isha' names
And when we took these names we really took them. Now Demetrius & Marquis are associated only with black Americans. Most don't know their French or Italian in origin.
Very insightful and underrated comment! Thank you for sharing!
Really wish you'd mentioned that a reason they may be in decline is also due to recent studies that show that African American, as well as "other sounding" names, are shown to more likely be discriminated against by employers who read it on a resume.
Depends upon what kind of "other". They seem to favor European-sounding names, and those are also from elsewhere.
@@nikkid4890 You shouldn't be associating someone's name with anything. The name Nikki makes me think of a crack whore because of a story someone told me once. But that shouldn't affect if I decide to hire someone named Nikki.
@@nikkid4890 so a name depicts your personality? I hope you know how stupid that sounds
Nikki D the reason people associate these names with violence, agression, and « rachet ghetto behaviour » is because black people are associated with these things.
she wasn't boasting she was being real but your brain processed this info differently . i am well aware of the reality of cv being thrown to the bin entirely because someone's zip code, and surname tipped off a bigot. its not the employee's fault if x y z white person is being a shitty human in general.
That "I don't want to offend anyone, please apologize" was completely unnecesary. There's nothing wrong in the video.
COMPLETELY NECESSARY unfortunately
Angel Ojeda
It doesn’t hurt to be considerate of how others might feel about something! Yeah, perhaps in this video he didn’t say anything offensive, but the whole topic can be a bit of a minefield, so it’s good to be careful to make sure nobody feels alienated or misunderstood!
There's nothing wrong with saying that. Anything that has to do with race is very nuanced and complex in its nature, and will have to cover some very guttural and serious historical points (in this case it was slavery and black nationalism in the 60s/70s). Because of the sheer complexity of these topics alone, pretty much whenever it is mentioned there is a good chance that there will be disagreements about the arguments suggested in this video, and depending on how personal the arguments are to an individual, there is a chance that someone might take offence. If that happens, the respectful thing to do is to just preemptively say "I'm sorry if what I have said has offended you, as it was not my intention to do so". This is not in anyway saying "I take back what I said", but just acknowledging that the topic is heavy and complex and that someone could take offense to an argument made.
There's nothing wrong with unintentionally offending anyone; there's nothing wrong with being offended; just be respectful if you are in either position.
Just the Coolest Dude Yo This exactly. I don’t see any harm in being kinder.
Exept that it can hurt. Apologising validates the hurt feeling and acknoledges that the other is right. That is why people apologise, because they realise they were wrong and try to make up for it in a minor way by saying it.
Saying sorry just to try and prevent people from being butthurt means that you caved in from social pressure and are willing to go along with something you don't believe in, this validates being really easely hurt by making being a victim an tool to get your way. Saying sorry where you are in the right will only encourage the other party to make even dumber claimes in the future. Its not about the words you use but the message you send. And the message here is "my rights end where your feelings begin", the right being the right for free speech.
So in short saying sorry when you don't mean it enables unwanted behavior and schould be avoided.
I don't understand why black American culture must always be compared to the whites here. The reason our names are often different from whites is because we are different from whites culturally. It's the same reason why our names are different from many others.
Myshalala right!!!! Why aren’t we talking about an Asian American named Ming or ling they always compare whites and blacks... why not ask about Hispanics name themselves Jesus or Pedro???
+hairbyshaundatv they envy us sis, they'll never be able to keep us off their minds rather good or bad... meanwhile in our daily lives they're the last thang on our minds...
Myshalala i wouldn’t take the comparison to personally. I believe he compared the two of us due to black Americans and white Americans (including sub sects for both sides) are the prominent race and it wouldn’t quite make sense to compare it to asian names when I’m assuming the target audience was prob confused “whites” assuming these names where “ghetto” or whatever they say. Or I could be completely fucking wrong it is 6am after all😂
@@mikelarry3707 HAHA OK pal. I'm envious of people with an average IQ of 80? Nah.
Im black and i get a name like Danial.
TF you apologizing for
demonstructie Because current year identity politics.
You'll see why. Check the comments later.
he is insecure for good reason, a very british thing to do is to apologize and mention the effort of trying
@@surajsharma1992 bcos one can't figure out whether ur sh?t smells better than ? Lowclass JERK!
Some good ole white guilt
Bruv imagine finding a white dude named "Lamar"
Entyarr en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_Alexander
Entyarr right tho
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_Hunt
I know a lot of White people named Lamar, I don't know a single Black Lamar.
I know a white guy named Jamal
People are so fragile nowadays that the author had to spend the start of the vid begging that we not be offended lol
Kevon Rankin hey you are Rankin, my family is too, where you from?
The creator (not author) did this out of his own choice to establish that this video is informative and that he does not want to offend anyone. What's wrong with that. It doesnt reflect society. There are PLENTY of videos on TH-cam that are out right offesnisve. He just wants to establish that this video is not lumped up in that category. What's wrong with that.
You know what is some bull shit. That now a days TH-camr have to spend 2 minutes sucking their sponsors dick in every vidoe
Waiting to be offended. Nope.
It's cause a lot of people take every little thing out of context ttoday.They'd find a way to make this video "racist" when that's not his intention.OP's intention is to inform and educate.Not mock the names.It's like putting a shield up.He HAS to apologize because it's to be expected that a good handful of people will get offended and flame him for this video.
@Claystead facts tho
Imma be honest with you. Thank you for this video. Im black and i get criticized for having the whitest name. I’ve always wondered how far back “race associated” names diverge from eachother even though they live in the exact same country with the same language cities. I love your disclaimer at the beginning. It’s absolutely important to point out and it really made my day to know that people like you exist. You are very impartial and provide great information. I wish i could subscribe twice.
Btw nice touch on the “it literally isn’t black and white”
Your name is Monica? Like the popular black 1990's R&B singer? It's not even exclusively white. To me, white female names are ones like McKenzie, Mikayla, Michaela, etc.
I'm glad that my mom had the sense to give me one of the whitest names ever. No, not Genghis.
@lobsterbale Legesse 😂😂😂😂
My surname orgin is Scottish. I'm AA.
Monica, to avoid all that criticism, you could always pronounce your name Mo-NEE-ka. Problem solved. ;-)
Thanks for the awesome words mate! 😁Sorry I only just saw this message
I think part of the move away from African American names is because my generation and the one before mine (Gen-x and Millennials) got ridiculed for these types of names, and we're the ones having children, now. So, more young African Americans name their children more common, less "obviously black" names. Unfortunately, some of this ridicule effects employment and treatment in other situations, too. An "Ashley" is more likely to get hired than a "Keyshia", even with the same qualifications. I certainly know girls my age who have African American names, and their children have names like "Ellie" and "Camden". I think people should happily name their kids whatever they want.
Nah that's terrible. There's a case where some New Zealander couple wanted to name their kid with long and random letters. Imagine if you name your son Adolf Hitler, that'll trigger sentiments of oppression(which the kid wouldn't care) or possibly in problem with German immigration. So to freely let the parents name their kid is in a sense, a bad idea.
You know its too idealistic to go and just say people should freely got a name without ridicule. Its part of life where sometimes the ridicule can empower you or drag you down. Be proud of the name given, as long as its in a common sense of a name.
But in my opinion at least, they should go for a mix like 'Kevin Oyouwe' or something alike so its easy to call the guy Kevin in Western world and Oyouwe is like the African name.
@@whatisdis I'm pretty sure the case in New Zealand was "tallulah does the hula from hawaii" and the string of letters was in Sweden and they pronounced it "albin" I do know of a case where someone tried to name their kid 47 bus stop
@@whatisdis soon as I typed "whatever they want" I knew someone would take it to "completely random string of letters and numbers" instead of my intended "culturally significant name that parents feel connected to". Don't do that, man. You know what I'm saying.
@@SunyiSideUp I know what you mean, like you don't need to change your name so much just to 'assimilate' into another community, right? 😅 Or maybe something like that.
But then there are some who'll do that. 😥
White South Africans and Arab Egyptians who immigrate to the US are also African Americans.
As an African-American historian I think you did a good job explaining this well.
hi i know this is really old but can i ask how you got into your career? Like how did you find a job as an aa historian? I find it super interesting but there’s not loads of info online
@@sneakerhead6625 Perhaps you should read some books about African American history.
⅓ of this video consists of advertising your sponsor … a bit too much IMO.
smuecke wait hold up, how were you able to put an actual fraction in your comment?😳
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Was expecting Tyrone to pop up somewhere.
That one is Irish.
I'm pretty sure that's Italian.
@pnp072000 Nope, Irish. It comes from the name of a county in Northern Ireland.
And Dwayne
Imraan Bulbulia could be a shortened version of Dewayne >dwayne
Those names are falling out of fashion not because of integration... that is almost laughable really. It's about economics. People with traditional AA names are less likely to find employment.
puglous3 all names were made up jibberish. I guess you've never had a class in linguistics.
puglous3 so people should accept the names you deem appropriate. There is a reason that different cultures create or make up names. It’s symbolic of the culture and the time. To this day, there are new Italian names being created, but that doesn’t seem to be a problem. At one point the name “Emma” was created there was no necessity for the name there were other names available. Why is this such a problem for you?
puglous3 this will be my last comment. It just seems like you have a personal issue with people being named things that aren’t stereotypical. I think not taking someone seriously because of their name is rubbish. What exactly does a name tell about someone? People usually pick names for their children because they think the name sounds good. Even people that give their children traditional names. It’s illogical not to give someone an opportunity because you believe their name is gibberish. I might think “Emily” is a nonsensical name because culturally it isn’t used where I am from, but that doesn’t mean that person shouldn’t get the same level of respect as anyone else I meet.
puglous3 You do understand that many things are named just that way. Pieces of existing names or words are used and either shorted or combined with others. But I suspect you know this. You are clearly a racist troll. Find another comment to spew your nonsense under.
That's a damn lie. The man in the video don't know wtf he's talking about. Black Americans are still giving their kids black American names. He also lied because none of our names derives from no damn africa
Less likely to be hired vs. More likely (with the same training/ educational background, and the name being the only difference on a resume). Guess which is which.
Brett because they need a Carlos to fill the diversity quota?
@Harold Haroldson no they are not yet you are the same guy that will probably sat racism doesn't exist in America yet you go out of your way to LIE and spread FALSE information?
Perhaps because certain names indicate a less cultured family of origin. I can think of some traditionally white names that might be the same. Leroy and Earl come to mind. My younger grandson narrowly escaped being named Kayden until my son insisted on something more traditional. Not that we're aiming for our offspring to become bank presidents, but you never know.
@@erynlasgalen1949 not hiring based on name is mentally retarded.
@@beninwarrior4579 Not necessarily. I work in a bank in a very affluent area. The customers would not go to and/or make weird comments about the tellers that had "ethnic" names.
If you think that your customers will take negatively to your employees and thus stop shopping there it is kind of necessary to then hire based off of who will attract more business.
why do surnames begin with O' or Mc
Ó' means 'from' in Irish and Mac means 'Son' in Scots Gaelic and Irish
Today I Found Out has a video explaining it
I kinda already knew the answer to this (I'm irish) but i still think it would make an interesting video
@NyYankees1985 Mc and O is Gaeilga, not gaelic. Two different languages
John O'Schitt McDumbfucke.
Stop apologizing for facts
You doing great
you're
Not facts only his opinion
*Hate
@@Riverious at the start of the video
I'm offended by you
as an african whats up with these names
whats wrong with Uvuvwevwevwe Onyetenyevwe Ugwemuhwem Osas
Gesundheit.
Are those real Swahili names? If so, what do they mean?
TheCimbrianBull That name comes from Kenya. I don't know the meaning, though.
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knowyourmeme.com/memes/uvuvwevwevwe
No, it's from Nigeria
@@TheTimoprimo
Thanks for the answer!
Very educational video. I am a black American and I actually think it’s sad that it was necessary to preface the video with an apology lol
I agree 100%. I'm black (1st generation-American) and I don't even get some names some African Americans choose to answer! With that being said we know that he felt obliged to apologize because people are so quick to take offense these days. This video could have went many different directions but he presented the info in a mature, respectful manner. It was far from disrespectful. It was insightful.
I think you liked it so now you can't cry racism lol
Having taught at HBCUs since 2012, I'm really loving the names! But I once had a student named Laquacksha. Poor girl.
Instead of mocking people who have names we find unusual, why not be curious? I took the chance one day and asked a coworker about her name origin and it was very educational. I am disheartened to hear that these AA names are on the decline because I feel it is a sacrifice of oneself to have to give into societal pressures.
Because people sometimes find it racist when people are inquisitive about their strange names. Basically you cant win
I'm pretty sure I'm one of the only Lemars spelled with an e instead of an a. And one of the only Lemars in the uk lol
@@fluffy3953 if people routinely mocked you for it then you're probably not going to be as forthright. I've met East Indian kids who don't tell people their "real" name because of that very reason. Many East Asian kids have two names. There familial name and their public name.
@@_blank-_ not gonzales, Rodriguez, ramos, Santiago. Nice cover up.
Such a fucking crybaby you are
I always found it weird that there were several Black ppl at my school named Tyrone. They were literally named After a county in Ireland.
There is a very heavy Irish influence in the Antebellum South, hence the Irish names.
@lobsterbale Legesse the modern spelling is Eoin. That's my name. I'm Irish BTW.
@lobsterbale Legesse Um, no. Utter bullshit. The Celtic name Owen derives from being nobly born or a young warrior. The surname Cohen means descended from the Aaronic Jewish priesthood -- the Kohennim. Two different languages, two different peoples.
In Ireland they pronounce it Ter-own
@SDC343 funfact; If you ever listened to NWA one of the rappers "MC Ren" real name is Lorenzo
only 60% percent of your video is content... the rest is a please dont be offended intro and a long ass advertisement
preach brother!
I'm tempted to dislike the video just because of that stupid advertisement at the end.
@@ab8893_ I *did* dislike the video because of the advertisement...and the fact that this video is racist.
TJ hey he's gotta make money somehow.
Revelian1982 How is the video racist?
My nephew is named DeShawnLey 😐 I was just like bro just name him Shawn
My twin neices are a Sophia and Lenahni (Len-Ah-Nea)
My brother didn't help pick the names -_-
DeShawn lei is a nice name. Shawn is a Black American name but it's mediocre as fuck
PARENTS HAVE NAMING RIGHTS (over your comfort zone or your society) BTW DeShawnley.. rolls off right.
Nothing wrong with those names. Is the second one pronounced Le nAA nee?
Shawn is most likely not a black american name, but an irish one.
Original Irish spelling:"Sean" (as in Sean Connery, the famous James Bond actor)
Imani originally comes from Arabic, meaning "my faith" and then it was incorporated into Swahili
Nope, iman, is different from imani
@@kofisam4106 its literally derived from arabic
@@kofisam4106 I speak Kiswahili, and a lot of Kiswahili words are borrowed from Arabic. The term Kiswahili is literally just ‘Sahel’ which is the Arabic word for coast.
There was a slayve trade in the east of Africa a long time ago and the people there were converted to Islam through conquest.
Some people think our names are "ghetto" "ratchet".. we dont expect you to understand its not your culture, and mock it all you want. Worry about yours only.
💯
whipcream202 who are you directing the comment at?? And Obviously that's something everyone should understand regardless of race, because of the fact that people of color are often discriminated against just because of their names. And no ones mocking anything, he's explaining where the names originated from 😐
Why do people with these names then always act more ratchet and ghetto than those without
jfc...
Period, I'm surprised it's so many white people in these comments. White folks know they love them some Black Americans i swear
I remember having a conversation once with an African American women who had three kids. She told me their names and explained that they were combinations of her relatives and her husbands relatives. She also told me that there were a lot of people within the community who were doing that as a means to preserve their ancestors. So that could also be a reason for the shift. But unfortunately, as many pointed out, the reason has a lot to do with opportunity. College and job applications tend to discriminate on “black” or “foreign” sounding names because of the idea that they’re uneducated or unprofessional, which is completely bogus and these ideas unfounded
Like yours?
Thank you, finally a comment that is likable. This is very true. I have several relatives named after lakes/areas ( in the Deep South), grandparents, and fusion names. They all are beautiful. I hate that we get shunned because of it.
That could be true in some circumstances, but considering the general socioeconomic background of these names, which side is more likely to be the most qualified individual? I'm sure that if people did a study with names like Billy, Bobby, and Bubba, you would be likely to see the same results. Names have stigmas, not much you can do about it.
megin na Wow, so interesting. Please send me the data and statistics on Names and likelihood to commit a crime. One thing i do know is that unique names are in the minority, so someone looking at the percent of unique names and crime can receive an incorrect conclusion. What research does show is that there is a strong correlation between poverty and crime. www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=5137
My alarm went off at the word "combinations"
good job on being balanced and inoffensive :) made for a great vid
I found supporting "I'm offended culture" by apologizing for merely talking about history to be VERY offensive.
Cowboy Dan Glad we can learn how to be a man from you, Cowboy Dan.
There’s nothing wrong with black names its the racist society that has a problem with black names
Love this, btw 30% of the slaves enslaved/brought to America were Muslims, and perhaps this's why some African American names are of Muslim or Arabic origin (Ex. Aisha, Jamal, Malik, Latifah, Zahara, Amani, Fatema, Rhianna, Qasim..etc)
Really? I thought this muslim names fashion among African Americans started in the sixties; never came across one of those in African American history
Imani is Swahili language means faith
No not why
@@fcafricanunion9915 imaan means faith in Arabic
@@fcafricanunion9915 Imani is arabic originally, probably adopted into swahili during the Omani slave trade.
On one forum I belong to, we are having a discussion about this, and one African-American person there offered his theory on the decline: Stigmatization by racists.
LangThoughts That’s definitely a consideration. My mom told me that the reason why she named me “Julian Spencer” was so that when I grew up and started applying for jobs/loans/college, nobody could tell that I was black just from my name.
Bingo
@KEKKER TM And a thought that makes little sense - considering their views regarding BLM
More likely just disproportionate amount of people with these names being criminals.
Racist Fuck
many african americans have muslim names even if they are not muslim
Really? But most african americans aren’t Islamic, are they?
@@sahararash6912 names like iesha, hakeem, malik, jamal, etc etc
Cameron Markwardt Do they at least know these names are Islamic?
It's sad that they're falling out of favor due to being perceived as "ghetto" (although to be fair, names like Bubba and Billy Bob have fallen out of favor too... and most latinos don't name their children names in Spanish) because everybody should have their own culture... and African Americans being stuck between a rock and a hard place culturally since they're seen equally as foreign in their native Africa than in Europe or Asia.
They're "their own thing" at this point, much like Ashkenazi Jews... that are neither Middle Eastern nor European.
That's a really interesting parallel that I never thought of before! Thank you for giving me something to think about.
Latinamericans have all virtually names from their country of origin, all hispanics have iberian names, all brasilians have also portuguese and iberian names, haitians and quebecqois have french names, only exception is sons of immigrants from other regions or people from the lower classes who come up with made up names, so wtf u talking about
@Claystead interesting. However I'd like to speak to an actual native Liberian about this...
Bubba is a nickname and Billy Bob is short for William Robert. I know quite a few Williams, even very young boys.
@@kyomademon453 I meant latinos in the US. I went to a school that was about 50% Hispanic, the only kids with names of Spanish origin were those kids born overseas.
My parents named me “Adam”. I’ve grown to like my name but I remember wanting a more ethnic name as a child as I always thought “Adam” was just a step above “Bob” in that it’s kind of dull.
@Adam D. I rather the name Adam my name is Latavius Deandre Demarcus
@@TA-uv7xm Lucky...
@@TA-uv7xm are you bob?
@@TA-uv7xm Adam is boring....... Sorry
@@ashe4702 he's CLEARLY an unseasoned Bob
Imani is pronounced “ee-mah-nee” and this is coming from a Kenyan so don’t tell me wrong lol
No one cares....yawn
Have a friend named this and we just all call her Money! Thanks for info
Das how we say it here
This reminds me of a dinner party I attended years ago. At one point the conversation turned to the names parents were giving their babies. One of the gentlemen attending was born and raised in the Bush country in Africa. He commented about parents who were giving their children African sounding names, but not researching what the names meant. Once he and his wife were out shopping and heard a woman call for her child. He said in his language the child's name translated to 'dung heap'. In my job, I once called a woman about her child, Theya. The woman was extremely upset I pronounced the name ‘they-ah.’ Turns out the kids’ name was pronounced 'tah-heya.' Another one spelled her child’s name La*Keysha. My advice is, don't use punctuation in the middle of a name and then get angry when a stranger doesn't know how to pronounce the name.
What is the bush country in Africa? I’m African and I’ve never heard of it.
We're Black Americans...Not African American.
@Durt Digler You dont call Whites European Americans unless they're from Europe.
I’m a Descendant of enslaved Africans in America, and I’m an african American denizen
@@MedusasSnakePit Same as I but that doesn't make me African American. An African American is someone born in Africa who immigrated to America willfully.
A Black American is someone born in America. We may be descendants of enslaved Africans but we are not Africans culturally.
@Durt Digler he's not really. If Two white people born in Africa and move to America and have a child. That child is African American and does not have dark or black skin
@Durt Digler So because I use logic. I act like white boy? You're an idiot.
Even Africans dont even know why Blacks in America call themselves African today...we are offspring of Africans that were enslaved but not at all culturally African today.
Calling me a white boy, lmao...take your ass to Africa and call yourself African, but note you're American, you'll be called white yourself. Wake up .
My Dad wanted to call me "Satan". He had legal documents and everything.
Fuck why did i laugh so hard to this
He awfully omg😂😂😂
Vegetarian Soylent-Green so instead he named you vegetarian
I heard that Bill Cosby almost named Theo "Spanish fly".
...so his brothers and cousins tied him up till he was sober again..?
I've been thinking about this subject for so long and would like to Thank you for explaining this concept to me. It really shows how African Americans took lemons and turned them into lemonade. That's so creative and innovative what they did to the Euro names and surnames that were given to them.
Imagine being Kidnapped from West Africa and being renamed “Cody”
I think the names are looked down on because of stereotypes associated with the people who have them. And while I don't think anyone should be judged off of stereotypes, stereotypes do exist for a reason.
My second thought is that if the african american people wanted to separate themselves from white culture, they should've just chosen African names instead of trying to create something new.
Lastly, I see a lot of people in the comments calling these names "Black" names. Please realize that these are not Black names, they are African American names. African Americans are black people who can trace their lineage to america prior to the civil war, whose ancestors were bought over from Africa. Not every black person in america is African American. You almost never see Caribbean Americans or African Immigrants with these kinds of names, and other black people around the world don't really have them, either.
Black people can name their children whatever name they want! That's their prerogative, they can do whatever the fuck they want, and I'm black! ✊🏽
Ngl but I hate when someone parents be naming their kids Auntjamimasyrupkeisha
Lol i laughed so hard i farted 💨😷😂😜😂😜
the word donna comes from italian, not french :D
Madonna 👀❤️
@Cáca Milis sa Seomra Spraoi It's not French, the only way the word Donna is used in French is as the past of the verb Donner which means to give.
Donna might be from the Latin but Latin Languages didn't take every word of Latin. So today it's an Italian word and not a French one. It's also a Corsican word, Corsica is now French but the language is closer to Italian.
Donna is an Italian word, simply meaning woman. It has a Latin root, obviously, coming from domina (lady, as opposed to dominus for lord). This word is not used in French in any form.
Ju - Whether or not it is taken as a word in common usage is irrelevant to its use as a name. Nearly all names common in the English-speaking world are used with no regard for their origins as regular words. Most people named Doris aren't Greek, and most people named Michael don't speak Hebrew.
FWIW Donna is indeed used as a French name, probably among Catholics for the most part.
@@HereComesPopoBawa Are you even French ? I am, most people here are Catholics by tradition, all of my ancestors were Catholics and I can assure you that Donna isn't a French name. All Catholic names are used in the calendar and Donna isn't in it. If someone named Donna came to me I would automatically assume she is Italian. I don't think I can be mistaken on a culture which is mine.
Why don’t Afro-Americans choose the names of their african ancestors like Bantu original names etc...
Some of us don’t want to. No connection there for us so we make our own. All cultures have made up names. Most cultures have made their names up thousands of years earlier, that’s all.
Destiney Love But they were made out of their ancestral languages, not a mix between multiple colonizer languages
I think a lot of it is just that they're ignorant of _actual_ African history - which is not really their fault and I doubt they had access to a lot of information about it. It's kind of like LARPing as "Zulu Royalty" but NOT actually having a real Zulu name for reference. I had a friend whose parents were hardcore Afro Nationalists when he was born and thought they named him "Skinner/Slayer of Racists" and it was actually "The Root Cellar" - his name was something like Le Carva Racise, no joke, he went by Alfred once he cut off contact with them after they ended up in a cult worshiping a "reincarnated pharaoh" somewhere in the south. It would be like a white person naming their kid Elrond of the Moon Elves because they're infatuated with European mythology but their only source was Lord of the Rings. I have a feeling that increased cultural awareness of _real_ African history and easy access to the internet helped reverse this trend.
@@bryanl1984 you just knew one person with crazy parents, mate
It's been 200 years since a lot of us were from Africa. That's a while. My parents went thru a period where they were trying to get in touch with their African roots when they named me. Lots of African names will result in you not getting as many call backs from a resume submission from what I feel. The whiter your life is, the easier it is to navigate through many parts of the USA.
I am not going to have kids so idk what I would name them if I did. I wouldn't move to any part of Africa currently either, as I agree less with the politics of the countries I've researched there than here currently. Maybe that will change though :)
African-Americans are wonderfully creative people. They invented soul, RnB, jazz, even rock and roll. They invented basketball, cuisines, decor themes and more. It makes sense that we would see creativity with names.
No; that was some white Canadian named James Naismith. Our people did make basketball popular, though. :D
they invented none of that except Soul n Jazz with are just spins on white invented music genras they were exposed to.
megin na He’s right, your wrong
Megin na
They invented rock and roll. Sorry to hurt your feelings.
Destiny Love sorry to trigger you, they put a bit of a spin on white genres of music, invented some genres of rock,
A few years ago there was a meme consisting of a screen photo from a TV program. In the panel at the bottom there was the name of some woman named 'Airwrecka' which allegedly is pronounced 'Erica'
+Mø Nälayé Yeah, African Americans are _great_ at naming their children
My personal favorites would be:
-Juju
-Devante
-Deshawn
-Orangelo
-Lemongelo
And of course, my super personal favorite:
-*Thief*
@Mø Nälayé He's trolling pay it no mind
@@sliferslacker6763 How about Liam? Kid was named after his dad, William, but his mother pronounced his name "Yum".
@@sliferslacker6763 there is a black guy in america right now called Thief??????
Poor guy
Whyte people make fun of Asian names too. A lot of my Asian friends say that they have English names, because of job discrimination. So if you don't have an english-sounding name, you are less likely to be chosen for a job. Every Asian guy I have dated has two names. They have their Asian name, and then they have their English name that they use on American documentation. I started doing the same thing. I started letting people call me Michelle on documentation, instead of my real name. Which is really just a creole variation of the French word for butterfly. They like to act Superior, as though English names are the norm, when in actuality their population is one of the smallest in the world. So in actuality our names are normal, and yours are not. Another one of my names is Orisha Yemaya... which I guess sound ghetto to anyone who is uneducated on Yoruba culture, and lacks access to the internet to even Google the name to see what it means. When a black person said that Orisha was a ghetto name, I wanted to face palm. I just told them to Google it
What's the creole variation of "papillon"? 🤔
One divide I've noticed between African American names and white names is the feminine variant of the name "Michael". African Americans tend to prefer the French "Michelle", while white Americans seem to favor "Michaela" or some spelling variation of that name (i.e. Makayla).
Ryan Cauffman reversed that and you’d be right
Karen is Karin in Swedish and pronounced "straightforward".
@Claystead "Karen" as a name exists in many languages. For example you can find it in Japanese, or it also exists in Welsh as "Caron"....it's not as simple as "you fools, you got a Norwegian name wrong". Some names exist in many languages (Catherine/Catalina/Yekaterina/Caitríona) and some languages happen to have names which are spelled or pronounced the same but came to that form from different starting points (see literally half the posts on this page).
Mainly because of the pseudo Africanism of the 80s and the 90s to fight back on ethnic norms of European names.
Twasnt a good idea.
My son's name is Mercury Cage Caldwell. I named him Mercury after Mercury Morris,running back for the undefeated '72 Dolphins. Cage was from the black Marvel Comics superhero Luke Cage Powerman. I later found out that the actor Nicholas Cage took his name from Luke Cage Powerman also. My son was named after a black NFL football player and a black superhero.
A lot of names are also a combination of parents' names or ancestors. For example, if Shawn and Lorraine are to have a baby, they might want that baby to be equally represented by both parents with a name, so the parents will combine their names into something like LeShawn or Sheraine.
"La mare" isn't "old French". It's contemporary French for "the pond".
Marie V True. Vrai
No one cares about the French...yawn 😴
@@kool-aidcorncrap7880 The American educational system at work, ladies and gentlemen.
The reason these types of names are in decline is because of the popular belief that a "white" name holds more equity on a resume than a "black" name. Parents don't want their children to be judged solely on their names before they even get an opportunity to interview for the job. Either way, this was a good video. I actually learned a lot.
+Durt Digler I've worked in HR and OP is right. ghetto names on resumes do get ignored
@Durt Digler there's studies that have been does that says otherwise. Google it.
@Jennifer @JarrelGTV You know it's a losing battle arguing with someone that thinks they know what one's experience is without ever living that life. It's ludicrous. It's like if I were to say to a woman talking about her experience with workplace harassment that she's "paranoid" and all this stupid bullshit. 1, I'm not a woman so who am I tell her that she's paranoid about an experience I have never had to live? Stop entertaining these trolls. It's not worth it.
The decline comes from racist attitudes and people not wanting their kids to suffer from having "quote" unquote Black names which can affect you ability to be hired and other forms of prejudice. It is good to do some research on things before making a video. That said for the most part I do think this was a very good and informative essay. Just that one point which had me snagged.
Don't work for bigots! That's the better option.
yeah because we know who they are before we apply for a job. That's just stupid. Don't make people not be racist just don't work for them.
"Its good to do some research before making a video"
Like the hundreds of references that were all through out the entire video for example.
@kamalindsey Yeah, but that's after you have already applied. You wouldn't know that information before you apply.
why do black people underestimate the powers of affirmative action?
Smoothest advertisement transition on the Internet.
My undergraduate degree is in African American Studies, and this subject was broached many times during my tenure as a college student. And I must say, you did a fantastic job explaining this!
If you feel comfortable sharing, what did you do after college and do you work in a field related to it now?
That's how I realized there's a reason why everyone thinks my name sounds French...Oof
Applecake what’s your name
I LOVE those African American names, they're quite unique and fabulous !
ikr?
Eh
Rolling Cones right a names a name as long as it isn’t retarded like northwest or some other abstract noun
Still beats "La Shaquandea"
warpnin3 or Leshawneekwahandra
It was a trend in the 80's not so much 50's, 60's, or 70's . simeon, Myree, Lawrence, Jeffery, jerry, mary, angela, Debbie, Joshua, james Fredrick, lisa, linda. ann, joann , paul, Edward. joseph, Christopher, Darrell, nancy, Muriel, Margie, evelyn, john, eva, tammy, Kelly, sara, Michael, sameul, amy, ted, marcus, ruth, paulette, sandra…. etc these were more common used names, or Bible names, and are still used today. these are some of the names in my family.
I always assumed the names originated due to French being spoken in some north west African countries and became a part of the name culture that way, but the south east USA with Louisiana and Mississippi does make a lot of sense 🤷🏼♀️ the more you know!
@young at heart France specifically had been colonizing in Africa since the 17th century. Other European countries didn’t have as much influence till later
I am African and most African American names aren’t of African origin.
My African friends laugh so hard about the black american names that these mamas be giving their children. Especially the girl names . They are no where near related to Africa
#nameexplain why do some people called penis , the Johnson?
Bathrooms or Restrooms are also called, the Johns.
According to some sources, President Lyndon Johnson showed off the size of his Johnson occasionally to groups of male reporters to emphasize his authority and power.
@@lenardregencia The movie, Robin Hood, Men in Tights, explains why toilets are called johns. Good old Mel Brooks.
Kim Kardashian Un yeah Lyndon B Johnson was weird af.
I call mine "Master of the Universe"
My father gave me the white ass name "Amelia" so that I could fit in in this society. Wish I had an African name though at times. Though I like Amelia. I guess.
Might not like it now, but you don't know how many benefits you have in the future
I changed my name
@@KreysHealth To what?
You didn't really explain why they added suffixes and prefixes, what they mean and so on. There has to be a reason why, but the video never went to the root of it (but did mention Roots)
My aunt (who was very religious and not prone to lying), used to recall a story about an African American woman who gave birth to a baby girl at the hospital in Chicago where she worked, and decided to name her Placenta. Apparently, she had never heard the word before and decided it made a "pretty" sounding name. They said they tried to dissuade her by explaining to her what it meant and that it wasn't an appropriate name, but she seemed completely oblivious and insisted. We assumed, or at least hoped, that at some point someone managed to talk some sense into her.
I’ve got a friend called Faith. Her surname is Imani. Thanks to this video I’ll just resort to calling her ‘Faith raised to the power of 2’! 👌🏽. Nice video BTW.
My name is DeJuana, but I met a white lady with my name, but I felt like she spelled hers ghetto 😂😂😂😂
Am I the only Arab here confused of the fact that the name Shaquille is of Arabic origin? I cannot think of Arabic root for it nor a similar-sounding Arabic name.
In the video at the 2:09 timestamp he mentions it comes from Shakil. But I can't comment on this since I'm not an Arabic speaker myself. I hope it helps you in finding an answer.
@@TheCimbrianBull "Shakil" is as confusing as "Shaquille". Not aware of the meaning nor the root of that name, and I've never heard of it.
TheCimbrianBull I'm turkish and afaik Shakil means "shape" in arabic. It's an arabic loanword in my language. Maybe they mixed up "Shakir" with Shakil. I know it sounds ridiculous but it's pretty common to confuse "L" sound with "R" sound(and vice versa). When you make "R" and "L" sounds your tongue twists similiarly.
@@kesorangutan6170
Thanks for the clarification! 😀
Thanks but It's not "clarification". Take my words with a grain of salt.
I had a good friend named Kizzy... I loved it and it fit her perfectly!
Pro tip, if you say or hear something is “military grade”, that doesn’t mean it’s super elite. It means it’s the cheapest functioning equipment available.
Barely scratches the surface, but thanks for the primer. Regards!
African American names have no origins in africa, try France or the middle East.
timotheus nakashona they are indigenous American names quiet as its kept.
French, Arabic, Irish and italian
@Lalin Moonflower Wauconda Illinois Waconda Lake Kansas Lawanda Chautauqua
Do you genuinely feel this way or you feel ashamed that some of the names originated from africa
It’ll be great if African Americans will start using some African names. There are many beautiful African names that will show our African roots better. Kobe is a Ghanaian name for a boy born on a Tuesday. We can use names like Ashanti, Kwame, Kofi, Kwesi, Ama. These names are Ghanaian names but there are beautiful names across the African continent.
AWJ Yes, my name is Ama. It’s a female name.
Yawn 😴
Some of us have African names but I'd much prefer we make our own names so no one can take credit for what we call ourselves or claim to have more knowledge or authenticity in it than us.
My favourite "black" name is Shaniqua. Sounds very exotic and unique.
racist
Mine too , I really like It
The only 'black' name I like, that comes to mind, is Keisha.
Others, like Tyrone, are Irish, or Jamal and Aisha, are Arabic.
Sounds ghetto as fuck.
Makes me think of the backtardigans
Also AA's tend to blend names of family members. Teresther Teresa+ Esther etc.
Tyrone is an Irish name black Americans are famous for using! :D
Its really upsetting that people in the comments seem to think its ok to keep calling peoples names ridiculous amd therefore deserving of nkt being taken seriously. Mkst of yall are just classist and racist, I dont think anything bad about someone named Lakeisha because ik a few, and they mad successful. Shantae, Demarion, Jamal are all beautiful names to me, and they are apart of my culture. All the self hating blacks can bleach they culture to whjteness for all i care, but then keep mine out ya mouth please
Oh whatever let me guess you're one of those "stay woke" Black people. Some of those names are ridiculous like Abcde or La-sha. I cant stand those ghetto names with those unnecessary hyphens and letters that are "silent" for no damn reason.
+BabyboyDet La-sha was a fabrication (by whites probably) and example of prejudice against blacks and the fact that there's people who still believe it to be a real name is a testament to the bias against and relative unprivileged status of African Americans.
Also the narrator of the video fails to note how out of the box names are trending among whites as well- unusual spellings of typical names along with giving masculine names to females are pretty common.
Anemone No I have friends and family who are teachers who have to teach some of these kids with these names so some of them are not fabricated by white people. And they tell me some of them act just like their name....ridiculous.
Demarion, the Marion, a European name, given a European prefix to make it different... Jamal is Arabic, same as your name Aysha. You're just stealing silly names from other cultures and claiming them as your own. It makes you appear uneducated.
@@claymusicoff5663 I said "some" of the names are made up. Pay attention.
Carl "CJ" Johnson
Melvin "Big Smoke" Harris
Lance "Ryder" Wilson
Nigga what about Sean "Sweet" Johnson
@@zachryder3150 Oh shit nigga i forgot
Thanks for the reminder
Oh you snitchin snitchin 😂
BOY... If you don't get out of here with GTA San Andreas names! xD LMFAO
@Promise EDEN lol i hadnt thought of either of those. I immediately thought of pilot/ officer call signs.
I feel like apologising even when you are doing nothing wrong is kinda weak. It rewards being over sensitive and turn stupid outrage into a effective tool to shut people up.
Other than that good video as always keep it up.
This reminds me of the old urban legend about the black twins named Orangejello and Lemonjello (pronounced "a-RON-ja-low," and "la-MON-ja-low.") There have been rumors of this nature all the way back to the pre-civil rights era, when racial humor was widespread and many people didn't think twice about mocking blacks as stupid. Unfortunately, many black Americans have reinforced these negative racial stereotypes by their pattern of giving unusual names to their kids (though in fairness, poor white parents often give their kids odd names too.)
It's essentially a linguistic form of segregation; since the late 60s, black Americans have been told by various black "civil rights" leaders that they shouldn't integrate into a majority white society and try to live on the same terms as whites. (The double standard is quite stunning: if a white person says that blacks shouldn't integrate into white society, that's considered racist, but if Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton or Barack Obama says it they are considered heroic warriors for the black community.) This is perhaps the saddest legacy of slavery and segregation on American culture today: blacks were separated from whites and considered "the other" for so long that most blacks today seem to accept this status and resist those black leaders who (like Booker T. Washington and Martin Luther King) say that blacks can and should integrate into the mainstream society are smeared as Uncle Toms and are resisted tooth and nail by much of the black community. And as long as that is the case, racial stereotypes like this will continue to be used by racist lunatics to perpetuate their disgusting and hateful ideologies.
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HotWax93 Maybe but you could argue that blacks are separated from whites and that intergrating in to an inherently racist pre existing main stream society isn’t in anyone’s best interests. I think it’s incorrect to force people to ignore obvious differences ... differences aren’t a bad thing and should be celebrated where they are beneficial and calmly and sensibly negotiated where they can cause issues. Most importantly the history needs to be remembered and forgotten at the same time. Perhaps black and white Americans would be happier if they could reconcile the fact that they are all historically immigrants in country that that already had a well established indigenous population for as long as anyone can remember. Maybe that would level the playing field and help all sides remember where they came from.
@@sunflowersgunpowder7390 What conclusive evidence do you have that mainstream society today is inherently racist? That may have been true 50 years ago or 100 years ago, but that doesn't mean it's true now. Racial inequalities aren't necessarily always caused by racism, and while they still exist, there's no conclusive evidence that discrimination is a reason. (I know from firsthand experience that poor whites often face many of the same difficulties as blacks do, which shows that most of what is perceived as racism or racial bias is really class bias.) Yes, blacks and whites look different. But why should it matter either way? Just because their skin is a different color doesn't mean they should be treated differently, and if you believe they should be, then I would argue that you are the one who is racist.
Black American names derive from ANCIENT HEBREW. Most “ghetto” names (LakISHA, KeISHA, aniYAH, aaliYAH, etc.) end in either “YAH” (“God”) or “-ISHA,” which is Paleohebrew for “wife.” The Biblical tribe of Judah (YAHUDAH), which was a West African kingdom for a few centuries, have done for centuries (look at the recorded ‘African’ names on slave ships online), attaches “YAH” to their names to denote tribe. Black “ethnic” names are more ancient than Europe itself.
Ok so not only you Bantus appropriate Egypt’s history but now you appropriate Israel’s history? 😂 Please stop your ancestors come from bantu west-african tribes. Nothing else. You’re neither related to Egypt nor you are to Ancient Israel.
And Judah was most definetely a semitic tribe native from the Levant, not Africa lmfao
Sahar Arash You must be ASHKENAZ, which the Bible speaks of as demonic IMPOSTERS in a land, Israel, that didn’t “belong” to them until they “settled” from Eastern Europe in the ‘40s, slaughtering everything and everyone in its path, including the Palestinians. If you were smart enough to *read,* you’d realize I never said they were or weren’t “native” to Africa, uncultured swine 🐖. Some of your inbred priests are even snitching on Israelis, confirming that current Israelis are the appropriators. Israel’s skin cancer rates naturally show that Europeans couldn’t have swelled in the Middle East’s torrid climate environment, anyway.
Sahar Arash Additionally, the world knows Bantu are *not* Hamitic (Egyptians) or from Japheth (Ashkenaz). Did Bantus fall from the sky, or something? 🤣
Rodney Whitney I’m not Ashkenazi (thank God) I’m Persian and I know dan well most Israelis now are converts Khazar and not original Jews but the original Israelites were closer to Mizrahi Jews than anyone else and strictly unrelated to Africa
As a kid I've too wondered about the French/french-sounding names in my community. I had never considered the geographic/historical connotation. Good video. Thought provoking.👍
This isn't just a 1960's and beyond type of thing. I work at a call center where we deal with a lot of old people (who have fallen and can't get up), and I have spoken to many people born in the 20's with these types of names.
Rowynne Crowley black Americans have always been creative with their names.
Am I the only one who thinks his avatar looks different in this video? Like... more elongated...
He said on Twitter that the app he uses to draw updated and now it displays things in 1080p 16:9 instead of how it was before where he had to change the aspect ratio.
I've been told so many times by Americans that my name is racially offensive.
Nice and all... but I'm not the one who picked my name... :P
Perhaps I'm biased due to this, but a name is just a name. As long as it isn't a cussword, anyone should be allowed to have any name.
I'm really curious what your name is now.
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Taar Baybi ?
What is your name?
I've always thought Ebony would make a nice name, but I always figured people would think it offensive. Is it that kind of situation?
I wasn’t offended. Very educational
In the Military, its common to try and guess the new person's ethnicity before they get to the command and before we try to look them up on Facebook. We'll start with the surname and then move on to the given name. Like for example, "Neal" mmm thats too vauge. "Derrick Neal" probably white. We were right. But we had this one. "Clark" "Mmm too vauge. "Charnallavandre Tariq Clark" Oh that dude black as night. We were right. Lol He said his mom made up the name. Combined his uncle's and father's names Charnell and Andre.
I think they come with their own names in a way to distance their self from whites. African Americans have always done things different then white people. The funny thing is you start to see a lot of younger white people with these names you would think only African Americans have🤔
That's no doubt because of mainstream entertainment media. Hip hop/R&B dominated the mainstream since the mid 90s and continues to rise by spreading into other countries with the help of the internet (soundcloud,Ytube ect)
The initial people to start the trend did so to embrace their African heritage. Then you had imitators who did it to be cool or exotic without understanding the names although unusual sounding were based on a culture. And then some people just want their child to standout and want to give their child something no one else has so that the child knows they're special.
And some do it to distance themselves. Black people attempted to assimilate multiple times and were rebuffed or punished for it. Eventually some people ask why am I attempting to emulate people who routinely harm me? And this is why some Black people abandoned Christianity for Moorish Islam and traditional Islam. It's a fair question.
@@TheRazorTongue 99.9% Middle-east people have no desire to be around blacks. Not a negative toward M.E. people. M.E. have more mannerisms. Cultural differences too.
@@rebeccafrost5542 pretty sure that doesn't affect name choices a whole lot. People choose names relevant in their culture, regardless of origin, and it so happens these names of Arabic origin are integrated and well known in the US.
Exactly! It is. Ironically, some names that were shunned by whites are now being used by whites.
Damn it stop apologizing so much wtf
Don't wanna make the Twitter mob angry
I've asked some parents where they got the names and the response was that they just, made it up. Like they just though 'laqasha sounds cool' and that's what they named their kid.
2:27 Yes, and...? What languages do Ja- and -quan come from and what do they mean?
i think jaquan is just a remix of joaquin.
Arabic ...
Well actually « la mare » in French still exists
And It means swamp
No one cares about the French
I mean the swamp is beautiful so I I'm not mad.
Wow, 1/3 of this video is an ad for NordVPN
Thank you!! I’m black (Afro Latino), but I’ve been trying to figure that out too lol
Ok but was not Rudolph Valentino an Italian actor???