The authors of “Freakonomics” found that for persons with odd names, those names correlated more to the economic success of the parents than they did the children, themselves.
Why do you come here to post racist garbage? Are you a troll?
These names have No meaning.These parents give their kids these names just so they fit in.Popularity reasons.
Not even real Native Born Africans have names like those.
It’s just like the Street Dialect that you hear in the Black Ghetto’s.You won’t hear anything like that in Africa or Jamaica for that matter.
Boogaloo.
‘Blacks’ are not the only people who give their children weird names. Remember MOON UNIT ZAPPA ?
However, they do it in greater numbers.
The SOURCE (and popularity) for all the ‘african sounding’ names comes not from AFRICA, but from the movie ROOTS.
Well... we thought about naming our daughter Morgan... because a bottle of the Captain may have had something to with it.
As someone with a very ethnic name (Italian) I think it is great to honor ancestors and feel a sense of connection to them. But it is also cumbersome. It gets pronounced wrong. Spelled wrong. And at times assumptions are made about you... In my case the assumption is that I’d be a meatball with mob connections, pinky ring, and always complaining that the sauce isn’t like Ma’s.
To the parents considering an oddball made up name I’d suggest thinking about your child’s perception imputed on him by name. About the job interview. About having to spell and explain it to others...