I was told that these weird names were their African heritage names from like, you know, the Congo or thereabouts.
Actually it started with Spanish constructed names and vaguely Hawaiian names because they sounded “exotic.” Now they are “African” names, just like those people in Brazzaville who put Spanish endings on their female names. I just call them by the generic “Scrabble’ because it appears to me as if their mamas dumped out a bag of scrabble tiles and lined up a few of them and that was the name to go on the birth certificate.
Somebody made a fortune off the African Book of Names...........
I always chuckle when I think about the parents of Michigan State wide receiver Plaxico Burress when asked about the origin of his first name.
The mother said that "Plaxico" was African for "survivor"............oooooooh kay.....LOL!
Myself, I always thought it was a fictitious plastics company.........
Named after Shaquille O’Neil and Queen Leticia?