:hammer: haters

The Bahamian custom of taking half the mother's name and half the father's name can result from some funny combinations. I grew up with a girl called Lentitia (Len--tish-ia).
I have a friend who when he was having children, gave them names like Anita, Anne and Laurie. His reasoning was that when his daughters grow up and start applying for jobs, he didn't want the employers to know that they were black until they came in for an interview. That way their resumes would be judged more fairly than someone name Tanishaqueisha.
But parents got to be careful with things even like initials. When I was adopted, my initials changed to T.I.T. and it caused me a lot of grief at boarding school.
The funniest name that I ever saw was when my friend and I were on a road trip through a German community in Northern Ontario. We popped into the local bowling alley because it had a restaurant in it. As you walked past the bowlers, the score sheets were under an overhead projector type of thing so you could see how the bowlers were doing. One of the bowlers was a teenage girl. Her name would be perfect in an Austin Powers movie. Without a word of a lie, she was named Iona Kuntz.
...I heard you utter this nonsense priorly and I think you shouldnt feed into the ignornance, racial prifiling and stereotyping my dear(as you would be no better than those who do because you know better and you would be insecure if you feel those names are so how inferior to a thomas forbes or susan parker...(added to the fact that those practicing illicit name discrimination is ready to pay out a civil judgement)
I know a girl named tatataniesha and she was so smart and I believe a medical doctor now...even knew one named quanastacia they called stacy and as pretty as can be....I think black people named their kids unanglosaxon or english names to carve out some kind of identity of homage to our african homeland...I have an african friend whose parents are named tina and clement and all her brothers and sisters have traditional yoruba names olabukola, olufemi, oluyemi, olukemi and toyian...


and I find a lot of haitian friends w/ name slike lavinsky and slovinshky vladimar etc etc...a german/russian edge

I notice that Cool 96 and Cable 12 has a female reporter named
Arabana (A-ra-ba-na) Appia.

I would like to know the origin of her name.

I also know a Thiminko (ta-mink-ko)

and Arcreete (are-cre-ett)

fyi
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=870048
http://www.nber.org/papers/w9873
http://www.chicagogsb.edu/pdf/bertrand.pdf
http://www.blackprof.com/?p=961
http://www.blackprof.com/?p=1889

I notice that Cool 96 and Cable 12 has a female reporter named
Arabana (A-ra-ba-na) Appia.
I would like to know the origin of her name.
I also know a Thiminko (ta-mink-ko)
and Arcreete (are-cre-ett)

appiah is a common surname in ghana
thiminko is a variation of my brother's name...

I have a friend name rika (ri-kah)
a chick from undergrad name toinana (twa-na-na- smart as a whip even if her name sounded like p****- but you cant judge people she is an architect these days I believe)

I notice that Cool 96 and Cable 12 has a female reporter named
Arabana (A-ra-ba-na) Appia.
I would like to know the origin of her name.
I also know a Thiminko (ta-mink-ko)
and Arcreete (are-cre-ett)


When I first heard that name I thought she was speaking in tongues

As you can imagine over the years I have taught children with some very interesting names. Mawako and Michelob (from Bahamiangoddess's posts) were two (brother and sister by the way). I am now teaching Karraganda's son (also named Karraganda) We also had a Coffee one time. Have had several named Precious and Princess. Have also had a Dakota, a Verandah (who I nick named Porch!) An Alaskey (boy), 2 Ghandi's (one male, one female) Of recent times there have been lots of Crystals, Shaquilles (male and female) have a Ridge now and many with biblical names. One family with about 15 children named all of their kids after books of the bible. At present we have an Habbakuh.

What gets me is when parents choose a name and then cannot spell it with sense. There is one child named Pethera, however it is pronounced Pietra!

I must admit when it came time to naming my own kids, I had a terrible problem choosing names. Every name I could think of I remembered a past student by that name who had some less than desirous traits so we ended up "creating" our own names, however, nothing tooooooo outlandish and both girls learnt to spell them quite easily.

like petula...such an ugly name!

and I feel you anne bout identifying kids with names of undesirables in past life...I dnt want to name any of my kids crystal...all the ones I knew were scandalous!

latanga---that's a funny name

As you can imagine over the years I have taught children with some very interesting names. Mawako and Michelob (from Bahamiangoddess's posts) were two (brother and sister by the way). I am now teaching Karraganda's son (also named Karraganda) We also had a Coffee one time. Have had several named Precious and Princess. Have also had a Dakota, a Verandah (who I nick named Porch!) An Alaskey (boy), 2 Ghandi's (one male, one female) Of recent times there have been lots of Crystals, Shaquilles (male and female) have a Ridge now and many with biblical names. One family with about 15 children named all of their kids after books of the bible. At present we have an Habbakuh.

What gets me is when parents choose a name and then cannot spell it with sense. There is one child named Pethera, however it is pronounced Pietra!

I must admit when it came time to naming my own kids, I had a terrible problem choosing names. Every name I could think of I remembered a past student by that name who had some less than desirous traits so we ended up "creating" our own names, however, nothing tooooooo outlandish and both girls learnt to spell them quite easily.


There are many children named Shaquille and Shaquilla.Their parents most really like basketball.There were a few Kareems and of course the ever popular Jordan.

This girl calling her 3 year old son saying "come here Denzel". When he reach I almost BUST OUT LAUGHING!!!!!

This girl calling her 3 year old son saying "come here Denzel". When he reach I almost BUST OUT LAUGHING!!!!!
my lil godbrother named denzel washington rolle
angel is a common one too!

I've seen a lot of names in my time, but three stand out:

i) Alpachino (Yes, that's a first name)

ii) Kardashein (sp?, yes, the mother heard of the name of the famous, [now deceased] lawyer from the OJ trial, and liked how it sounded)

iii) Rejoiner (yes, first name/origin unknown)

I have also come across a GeorgioArmani and an AnwarSadat (these were their christian names)

As you can imagine over the years I have taught children with some very interesting names. Mawako and Michelob (from Bahamiangoddess's posts) were two (brother and sister by the way). I am now teaching Karraganda's son (also named Karraganda) We also had a Coffee one time. Have had several named Precious and Princess. Have also had a Dakota, a Verandah (who I nick named Porch!) An Alaskey (boy), 2 Ghandi's (one male, one female) Of recent times there have been lots of Crystals, Shaquilles (male and female) have a Ridge now and many with biblical names. One family with about 15 children named all of their kids after books of the bible. At present we have an Habbakuh.

And now the name lives on . . ., (ugh). There's also a Katanga walking around Nassau somewhere.

What gets me is when parents choose a name and then cannot spell it with sense. There is one child named Pethera, however it is pronounced Pietra!

Let's not even talk about spelling vs. pronounciation of these names. :footmouth

I have also come across a GeorgioArmani and an AnwarSadat (these were their christian names)

Yep, and "Primo" too, (when the perfume came out back in the 90's, he got real popular). :D

I don't have a problem with the combination names if they look and sound decent. Some people can end up with some nice or at least halfway normal names. For example, a James and Michelle could have a little Jamelle.

Don't encourage it.