[summer]

What's your theory on the white names listed? Seriously, as I have no idea how this all started. Did almost every white parent decide to name their daughter after Brittany Spears? That's what it seems like.

[dogbyte12]

There might be something to a person acting like their name. It is more a case of environment than any other thing else. Parents who name their daughters Candi, Brandi... probably are not going to be that aware of what their daughters are up to in the back seat of some boy's car.

I am guessing that the parents of "Latrina" or "LaTissue" aren't rocket scientists either. Names do matter.

They actually did a study of this. They submitted resumes of common names, and "black" sounding names to companies with basically identical qualifications, and the ones with normal sounding names were more likely to be called in for an interview with all else being equal.

If I am a CEO, and I am hiring a new executive, and I see that her name is Candi Kane Johnson... I admit it, I will be biased. If it was Rebecca Smith, I would be more likely to give her the time of day. Thomas King would probably get me more interested than LaDarnell Jamicus King.

[EllaMinnow]

I got out my old high school yearbook from the late 70s. Every other white girl was named either Debbie or Sharon. Most of the black girls had normal names, like Barbara, Carolyn, or Dianne. There were a few odd names, like Aquilina and Altimese, but they were very few.
I tend to think that, at any given time, about 50% of white parents will choose whatever name is in fashion, and the other 50% will use a Biblical or family name.

[PallMal]

What's your theory on the white names listed

It could be the pop-culture mindset (as one other poster pointed out).