What's in a name?

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Originally posted by Steeltrap
DISCLAIMER: This is just my theory.

I honestly believe that somehow it got into some of our brains after 1970 or so that the so-called "ghetto" names were somehow related to African names like Nia or Imani.

How that happened, I don't know. But I was born in 1964, and I rarely saw names such as Qyntel, Dajuan, Jahtwasia or Shananashaqeesha until much later.

Aren't names supposed to have meanings to them? If someone wants to give their child an "ethnic" name, why don't they go and find a book of African or Islamic names and find out their meaning instead of trying to create one of their own. I was born in 1970 and my friends have names like Cheryl, Yvette, Michael, Nicole, Anthony, etc. - you get my point. When people started having children from the late 80's until the present, I don't know what the heck some of them were thinking in terms of names. Alize??? C'mon, be for real I'm just glad that when I had my daughter, I had sense enough to give her a name that was simple for her to pronounce and spell (which she was able to do at age 3) I do get upset sometimes when folks jack up her name - it's not difficult!!