"Black sounding" names and their surprising history
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What's in a name? Sometimes it's just our imagination, and other times it's an attempt at a political statement. Black names have been satirized and stereotyped for a long time, but they have a unique and downright surprising history. Azie and Evelyn discuss the history, culture, and influence on "black sounding names" for #SayItLoudPBS
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Mahinda Githaiga Crystal too
My mom says she got my name from construction worker she met while he was working on my grandmother house she liked it so she told the man " if I ever have a son I'm going to name him that" lol I often joke with my mom that she was probably being fresh lol.. but Shukree is my name. It's ok if cant pronounce it's ok my gmom cant ether!! 😊😊
Hey, you're human. Mistakes happen, even if it happens again in the future, you are forgiven lol.
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@@marriagenuggets1038 true
Bruh who never found their name on keychains growing up 🙋♀️
Me
I have a traditional African name. I just look for my initial
Mine was the one they were always out of!!
I would be able to find it so easily but my parents went with Mollie instead of Molly.
🙋♀️
I never have
A girl from my high school was named Marijuana Pepsi. She rocks her name and recently got her PhD.
Marci LK I thought Cauliflower and Coriander sounds cool too 😎
Omg they make a freakanomics episode about her!
Mike Rodgers Maybe someone who is looking for a positive story for motivation.
This name is legendary because I heard about this name from someone else months ago too lol
Hate to say it but that is genuinely cruel of the parents. Glad she got her degree though
"La," "De," etc. prefixes from French/Creole... mindblown! 😲
Duh?
Yeah it never occurred to me either, so that was cool to know!
@@semiramisbonaparte1627 Right!!!! Like who tf didn't know that.
@@SongSingsSoprano well if u know romance languages, all of them have a de or la
@@7iscoeExactly. Unless the person is from Louisiana, there’s really no French connection. It’s just something black American women made up cuz it sounded “cute”😂
My parents promised my older sister that she could name me if I was a girl (confident that I was a boy). Sure enough here I come and my parents kept their word to a 10 year old who named me Rasheka. She cannot recall to this day why she chose this name or the meaning.
It took me a while to embrace my name as I felt it was “ghetto” when I was younger. Funny story though; years ago I went into a local fast food restaurant in Chicago and when I gave the worker my name for my order he complimented my name and told me my name meant something along the lines of above others or royalty and is Indian in origin. You learn something new everyday!
Your comment made my day. Who knew your little brother new some words from India.
Lakisha is Frida Pinto's character's name in Slumdog Millionaire. Lots of "Black sounding " names in Indian culture too.💓
Love love your name! A good friend of mine has the same name and I call her sheka ❤️❤️❤️
Glad you’ve embraced your name because it’s really a beautiful name. I used to dislike my name because it’s “old fashioned” and it’s definitely “white” lol. My name is Emily. It’s grown on me. 😉💖
Rasheka sounds arabic "رشيقة", meaning graceful :) your sister unknowingly gave you a lovely-meaning name
If someone has a “difficult” name to pronounce I will make it my mission to make sure I learn it and pronounce it correctly. No nicknames unless they really prefer it. Put respect on names
Me, too because it hurts my ears to hear someone mispronounce my name so Think others feel the same way. That's why I try my best to pronounce it correctly.
God bless you both! I despise the name Karen because no one can pronounce mine so karen is what their brain autocorrets to
Same. It will definitely take me a long time, and I will butcher it for a few weeks, but I make it a mission to get it right.
Also spelling it correctly, but that’s more because it was such a pet peeve of mine when people misspelled my name when I was younger. Not so much anymore though.
I totally agree and am the same way. I want to make sure I'm being respectful and make sure the person knows it's important to correctly pronounce their name. I feel people are dismissive if they don't bother learning the correct pronunciation just because it's not in someone else's vernacular. Or even just *try* to say it correctly....it's not difficult to just try.
Bunny Tsukino I appreciate you !
When i was working with kids, i met a boy from Suriname who was named Tiamo. His grandma invented his name, not knowing that 'ti amo' means 'i love you' in italian :)))
I thought that this was fantastic: every time someone calls you he tells you that he loves you!
I loved it.
majda vojnikovic very sweet.
Oh that is so sweet
That's funny! I know a young woman with that name. She was born in Malawi
AAAAAAWWWWWWWW!! That’s so sweet!
I'm from Suriname😊and we make a lot of names up😂mostly combine the parents name
I literally NEVER comment on youtube vids, but this is seriously real. I'm a white girl with a "black" sounding name (pronounced Kah-mee-shah), which has given me a *small* insight into the discrimination many face when they aren't named something like John, Jennifer, David, or Jessica.
I am THANKFUL for my name, because it has helped me empathize with others, it has given me the opportunity to connect with others, and it has created a bond with so may people I adore. This video is amazing. Thank you so much!
camicia, this is a literal "walk in my shoes"
Tyrone is still a County in Ireland 😂 (pronounced Tear-own)
*Northern Ireland
* north of Ireland
They are reaching with finding places that are the same as "black names"
No one was sitting around saying....lets name our kid after an 11th century city in England....Quintrell. Lolol.
@@annikid7010 No, Northern Ireland
I thought it was pronounced ‘tie-rown?’ I’m from the Republic of Ireland, maybe we pronounce it differently in Leinster. But yes, it’s an existing county in Ireland haha
When she started saying Oluwatosin Akin- I fell out of my chair😂 that’s my name. It just threw me back because it’s so rare here.
Lmao my last name is Akin😂😂
Tosin I know an Oluwatosin where I live 😂 it is rare
Morgan McKenny that’s cool! I’m glad there’s more of us😂
Tosin 🤣🤣🤣
Tosin its a Nigerian name from the Yoruba tribe
“Tyrone was a kingdom in gaelic ireland” - and is still the name of a county in Northern Ireland
Nicholas Olmetti
Typo? 😂😭
I knew a FIIIINE guy in high school named Tyrone. He was beautiful! Tall, slim, dark skinned, slanted eyes, and dimples.....he was just too fine to be named Tyrone.
Why would anyone name their child Tyrone?🤷🏾
Exactly! It's still a place!
😯😲
Awww :)
Please, keep making up new names. We need to have a large pool of names to prevent collisions -- singed, the 5th Matthew in english class.
I hear you. In High school I was one of 3 Jasons, just in my group of friends alone and it was not deliberate.
Yoooo I was one of 8 different kaylas in my grade 😭😭
mscout1 my name is Emma I feel the struggle 😂
i work with two tiffanys, two ashleys, and then there’s Dentist Tiffany that works next door to our bakery.
please, for the love of god, keep making new names. i literally cannot devote any more brainpower to differentiating another tiffany.
“singed”?
When people are excited to meet you, & you can see their happiness dwindle away because they were expecting blonde hair & blue eyes.🙄
Thats messed up
My freshman year roommate was a (white) girl who traveled a lot in India. She totally thought I was going to be Indian, as I'm pretty sure the college dorm assignment people did, too, when they put a "Risha" with her. She was shocked when I showed up with my blonde hair & blue eyes.
I'm from Chicago (South Side not suburbs), my parents "made up" my name and just liked the way it sounded. My friends growing up thought it was pretty normal, but when I moved to the West Coast, people suddenly had trouble pronouncing it.
Lol imagine the opposite when the preconceived stereotypes disappear after merting a "Jamal"
@Jennifer Hickman we have the same last name well Hickman is my maiden pretty cool since this a video about names Hickman isnt really a common name ive only met maybe two or three other Hickmans in my life and im 30 im sure if you have brothers or maybe its you and your husbands name but did you ever get called hickey man growing up
Kim LeBlanc Actually Sis the Hickmans are in South Carolina.
I’m white and I was calling out to my coworker “Shaneequa” and some other white person asked me why I was calling her that, like if I was insulting her.
“Because that’s her name!” 😡
zengseng I’m a Shaniqua! You’d be surprised how many people love to tell me “we say that as a joke in my family!” 🤔😒
Shaniqua Wright My cousin Shaniqua gets that all the time! The worst is when they say "you don't look like a Shaniqua" 🙄
@@shaniquajones4280 that is just rude. Sorry people are idiots.
perhaps is because of the way you purposely bit the name out of your mouth as most Anglo Saxons would they deliberately pronounce something and a degrading level and then smile and say I'm only just pronouncing with her name is you know exactly what you do you know that but that's to be expected📞📞🎶🎵
That's funny
When I hear Natasha I think Russian
Russians makes up the largest group of Slavic people, so it makes total sense that you'd think of a Russian. My entire family is Slavic, but I was sadly given a non Slavic name.
да.
Like she's chillin' with a little dude named Boris, out there tryna wreck a moose his homeboy, a squirrel...
Yeah idd, sounds very slavic to me. Even if it's a common name in the Netherlands too.
I think of that & black widow
My sons name is Zaimani.. a “made up” name combining Zaiden and Armani!! A day after my son was born his pediatrician told me his name has Swahili origins and means “A long time ago” or in other words an old soul🥰🥰🥰🥰 love the creativity that come from our people!!!
*I don't necessarily find that creative.*
No there is a different
Zaimani
Zamani is what means in the past or long ago
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White Monique here! Never knew my name was a 'black sounding' name. So nice to know. Hello sisters!
What's the story behind your naming, and where are you from?
Hi @@Mr4one6, I'm from the Netherlands. They have two types of spelling here: Monique (the French way) and Moniek (the Dutch way). My name is spelled the French way. My parents were in love with the name even before they were married. I believe the name comes from north Afrika form a goddess named Monna/Monnica and later it became more populair in the Christian world because of Saint Monica. The meaning "advisor' of the name Monique comes from this saint, I believe.
Miedo 811 Greetings. There really is no such thing as “black” sounding names as black is just an erroneous colour descriptor and status. So at the end of the day, in America, people associate names being affiliated with African Americans as many African Americans may choose particular names when in reality, the majority names are European in origin and have nothing to do with Africa. Makes Americans seem dumb and ignorant. Just my two cents.
Miedo 811 I went to school with a Monique AND a Moniek. Both were black. Most I knew were black. I think the first time I met a white Monique was when I worked at the Public Library during my college days. And she was actually from France. I loved hearing her say my name (which sounds French although not French in origin).
@@001islandprincess hi! That is why I had black sounding names between ” “, just like the title implies. The thing that I find interesting is that a European name as my own has developed through culture as a new frequently used in the black communities. Through this video you can see how names travel, change and can be traced back to its origin. I wil not say that Americans are dumb in any way, that would be an erroneous descriptor as wel to my point of view.
My married name allowed me to schedule a job interview over the phone, but once I arrived... One hiring manager even swore to high Heaven that she NEVER spoke with me over the phone and denied we had a scheduled interview. Needless to say, I didn't want to work for that company had I made it past the reception area.
Wow.😐😐😐
Wow no ma'am...that just goes to show that if a company is racists...it doesn't matter WHAT your name is...
Sounds like a discrimination suit to me...
That's really awful. 😟
Thats sad smh
My name is Ebony and I was named after the Ebony tree whose wood is not only beautiful and unique but strong and resilient. The name Ebony means more than the hue black, it symbolizes black resilience and a uniqueness that is desired by many. 🖤
I never met a non Black persona named Ebony.
@@deva190 I have, went to school from jr high to high school with a blonde blue eyed white girl name Ebony. My name is Ebony also and it made me cringe whenever I heard her addressed by her name bc she always attempted to act as what she perceived as being black. I'm still scarred in my 30s. Please don't name your white baby Ebony lol you can sample any other name😅😖
@@TripOGi100 oh, wow.
Also certain shades of black like Ebony can mean eternity, everlasting or endurance in the language of color. I think that’s pretty awesome.
My name is Ebony too :) My parents chose it because of the gift mentioned in the Bible haha. Then they chose Marama as my second name. Marama means moon/light in Maori and they chose it so it could contrast with Ebony which is dark/black :)
This was super interesting and informative. I've been a college teacher un Montreal, Canada for almost 17 years and my students come from every possible ethnic/cultural, background so I've had to learn hundreds, if not thousands of unusual (to me) names over the years. One that I remember from a long time ago (2005, to be exact), was a girl of Haitian origin who's name was "Elysabelle". My own name being similar but more common (Isabelle), I asked her once where her name came from. She explained that her parents liked the name "Isabelle" but that her father's name was "Élysée" (like the famous boulevard in Paris). They basically fused both names and came up with "Elysabelle". Genius! Why chose between two names that you love, when you can mash them up and make a new, unique one!
There exists more than 30 babies I have had the pleasure and honor of naming. I leave a legacy that I am quite proud thereof. I began naming babies in 1984 by combining the names of loved ones such as you mentioned in your comment. LoveLove
bella and edward from twilight type vibe
In Haïti it's also very customary to hand down name! In one of my friends families all their first born daughters are named Marie and go by their secondary, or middle, names. 🤔
How do you pronounce the name.I tried doing it... but, it's sounds kinda wierd to me. Just saying and asking
@@gotmilk8803 Which one, Elysabelle, or my own name (Isabelle)? If I remember correctly, (it was 15 years ago, after all), my student pronounced her name in French so it sounded like "Ay-Lee-Za-Belle". As for Isabelle, it's a pretty common name so if you're not sure about that one, I suppose you can find an audio clip online that can show you the proper way to pronounce it!
This was such a fun and informative video !
I am in my 60's , White, and grew up in South Central Los Angeles. Names have truly changed over time . I don't think I knew a DeMarcus or a Lakeisha in my day . Black little Boys where named Robert ,John ,Kenneth ,Joseph. Black little Girls were names Debbie , Cynthia , Sandra, Donna . I do remember a little boy named Cortez ...that was about as dramatic and unusual as it got.
My Name , Loretta , was unusual for its day and I usually was the only one in my class at school who had that name . My Mother wanted to name me Lorie (which is my nickname ) but someone in the family beat her to it and named their new baby girl, Laurie . My Mother told her Nurse at the Hospital (who just so happened to be Black French Creole) that she was sad and probably would end up naming me " "Patricia". Her Nurse had the solution : Call the baby Loretta , after actress Loretta Young (popular actress back then ) and then you can still call her Lorie for short . The rest is History .My Mother was happy again and got what she wanted after all.
Also, many people when they have not met me in person assume that because my name is Loretta , that I must be Black ! I Just love it ! God Bless all.
Thank you so much for sharing that! I found that so interesting. I am of French/Haitian ancestry and my father, rest his soul, loved listening to classic country music. As a little girl in the 90s, I remember how much he loved the singer Loretta Lynn and that name has always occupied a space in my heart. I just thought it was such a pretty name. I still do.
@@AvecPoesie Thank you for your comment . That's very kind of you to say so ! I love Loretta Lynn too. Not too many Loretta's around these days ....sadly its a name that's dying out . I didn't like it so much as a child. Its a name you have to grow into , I guess (smile ) God Bless you and thanks again for your nice comment !
Ok, now send this to all employee HR and hiring departments ASAP!
RETiredGM 🤯yes!
@@pastelpurpledeathbed Reeeeee! Reeeeee!
White people
I work in HR and gravitate more to "ethnic"sounding names out of protest lol
I'm so serious though
The part about French names made me smile. I'm in Quebec and your average Monique is a 60-year-old white lady and Antoine is a white guy aged 30 or less. Seems like every region is different. Thanks for the great video!
Same! I’m in France, my white aunt is named Monique, and Antoine is a super common name for white millennials, but not too common among Black or Arab kids. The same analysis in other countries would probably be just as fascinating!
For example in Iran most middle aged people have Islamic names, it used to be the default, but as a reaction to the Islamic revolution, a lot of millennials instead got Persian names (from the Persian language and mythology ; Persian was the main language of Iran since antiquity) which is comparable to Europeans switching from catholic names to greco-roman mythological names in certain eras like enlightenment when they went through identity crises and started questioning their faith
I met an older guy up there named Gaytan I called him Gatan
So true! I'm from Quebec too!
ouiii j'ai pense la meme chose
My mom’s name is Monique and she’s a 52 year old Italian woman haha
I work at a hospital in an office, and Evelyn is now becoming popular again with newborns. What is surprising is that many "old people" names are trendy again.
I once worked in the HR dept of a health industry company and was blown away to witness that resume callback or consideration was based upon the applicants name, college attended, and the address/zip code which they stated that they resided in. "Equal Opportunity Employer" - NOT!
From an uncommonly white Darnell, thanks for the informative video. Love the way you express the power and beauty of unique names. Now I’m off to gather some grass.
I went to middle school with a white guy named Darius!
I was talking to my mom about a kid i knew named Darnell and she was like oh no that's too bad. I didn't understand and she said "that's a girl's name :(" because she only knew one white woman named Darnelle
I can easily imagine a white Antoine, but I grew up speaking patois French to men named Rene.
😂
You’re welcome to the barbecue Darnell
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolium_temulentum cheers
Lord! When you pulled that baby out with a full set of box braids.....LMFAO!!!
🤣🤣🤣
Right 😂😂😂
I had to stop myself from screaming at my desk!!!
@Estrelitawilliams right I was 💀😂
‘Hi Baby...(walking away) Dad?’ 😂😂😂
The irony of defining Latifah's character's name but not "Latifah" lol.
Graf Aramaic from someone whose name is, coincidentally, Aramaic😏--they actually DID define 'Latifah'. Watch it again.
they put the meaning of Latifah right next to the meaning of the character's name
My black family's name Freitas was chosen by us, just so we wouldn't have the same name of my great grandmother owners.
Are you brazilian?
Freitas almost sounds like German "Freitag" to me, which means Friday :)
Freitas originates from Da Freitas, Portuguese Ashkenazi Jews.
Well, that makes sense, tho.
I'm curious about not "ethnic" names, but obviously made-up ones
Example: Felon. (She was killed by an el train in Chicago when she jumped down to get her phone)
Lemon (heard of two of these)
Silohette (salesgirl)
And no joke, a woman who got arrested for solicitation: "Female." Pron "Fem-ah-leh."
As another person said, curious to know why you'd maje your kid's life harder...jc
My name is Grace🤗 it was gonna be Trinity but my mom survived 9/11 and she said Gods Grace saved her
Yes. HE did. Amen.
Wow I was in middle school during 9/11 I forgot you guys are teenagers now. Time flies. So glad she made it out!
That's beautiful
Grace The Giraffe aww that’s adorable
Aww thats cool. My name means "Gods Grace" or "Grace of God"
You forgot to mention the name of one of my favourite black artists Tupac Amaru Shakur. His name is native american, specifically Quechua. He was named after Tupac Amaru II, a Peruvian revolutionary who lead an indigenous revolt against colonial occupation. The name Tupac itself, means something like "Royal".
Nice!!
Thanks for that!
Oh, I did not know that. Interesting to know where his name came from.
Although his name origin is fascinating, in so far as this video is about "black sounding names", "Tupac" is a straight up wildcard.
I mean maybe 20 something years after his death there are a bunch of kids named for him but that'd still be pretty rare in 2019- plus it's hard to overstate just how unusual Tupac's name was amongst black people in his heyday.
Aaaaaand African. Amaru like Ameru & Amhara people. Shakur for Chaka & Shaka or Shaki. The Tu is common amongst some West & Southern Africans. And the Egyptians. Sooooo that melanin has origins that travelled to the Americas loooong ago.
My mom loved Chaka Khan and Rufus she went to a concert in 1978 and two years later I was born Cha-Khan.
Cha-Khan Rand seriously?
Poor girl
My cousin's name is LaShaka. My uncle said he named her after his favorite singer Chaka Khan. When she got married she changed her name Renee Griffin. Her middle name is really Renee. She hates her birth name. The name she really likes is Vanessa. After she divorced she changed her name back to Renee Taylor.
Cha-Khan Rand 🎶🎶I feeeel for youuuu.....I think I luhhhhve you🎶🎶
@@ThejeffJr8 Seriously
My aunt's name is Tasha... but she's white. My 2nd great-grandfather was Jerome (also white).
Stephen Colbert's middle name is Tyrone.
Cool video, guys! I enjoyed watching. :-)
Jerry Seinfeld's real first name is Jerome.
I know a White guy named Jerome Antoine
@@Grokford you can find many Jerome Antoine in FRANCE.
I know a white Juanita!
I love this! I am Antonesha, and my name is inspired by my deceased uncle Antonio. Why not Antonia? Because it was 1993 and my parents had to put some "esha" on it 🥰❤💅🏾
I have a cousin with the same name and same spelling! She’ll be happy to hear that she isn’t the only one with this name. ☺️
I remember in the 90s "esha" and "ita" ( pronounced eeeta) were popular endings for girl names.
@@SweetSerenity_247 that's so neat! My parents swear they made it up! What's the story behind her name?
My baby sister is Esha!!!
Walker Flocka I think Antonesha is actually quite a pretty name I actually really love names with esha on it
“Correct them
when they say your name wrong
then
watch their tongue stumble
over it’s own discomfort
as it tries to find its footing
on a land it cannot steal”
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To All The Girls With Heavy Names
- Elisabet Velasquez
Pinwheel ART Beautiful
Beautiful, thank you!
This 👆🏾 again!!!
Preach!
Profound
the Key & Peele skit 😂😂😂 "Ladennifer Jadaniston" 💀
I love this video!! It’s nice learning about the origins of some of our names. For so long I bought into the misconception that certain “black” sounding names were “hood” or “ghetto.” Then one day I thought, everyone else has their own culture, and our original cultures were stolen from us, so why can’t we create new ones for ourselves? I now view our names as something unique to our culture.
LOL We had a lot of fun with this one! **performs masculinity** **wears a mustache and a red lip at the same time** Oh and Quintrell Thomas is a real basketball player and it’s Terrell as in Owens!! :DDD thanks for watching y'all!
Evelyn From The Internets
Shai (singing group) Rob (my father is Robert) ia (feminine)
My sister is Tarobia (combination of mother and father- Tameka and Robert)
The uncle was hilarious!
You ladies are wonderful! My kids watch you.
This series ..exists. My head exploded. 🤯
Bonus: I also learned about my middle name from this, which tempts me to watch the middle name vid next... Love love love love love!!!
Having grown up speaking French I remember always being puzzled as a kid when I saw "Jérôme", "André" and "Monique" being referred to as "black" names on TV lol
nice video
True I m french. And the people i known with these names are all white. Even africans and french west indians dont really used this name. Yvette is also used by africans americans.
I’m from a really white family and my cousins are Natasha and Monique Natalie and Nichole
Yeah lmao every white French person has a great uncle named André
J'ai toujours pensé la même chose!
Fifi Pierre My second name is Yvette, so yep. I was named after my mother but I’m not sure why she was given French names. Her first and middle are French. I was told my first is French but it’s debatable.
What an amazing, humorous take on black culture. So informative.
I’m always fascinated by names. As a substitute teacher, calling roll without butchering the pronunciation is often the hardest part of my day. We have more Hmong and Hispanic and Tolowa and Yurok names than a lot of places, but it’s fun to hear where the names come from. I’m a Dixie from northern Wyoming, never saw my name on merchandise. Dad dreamed he had a daughter named Dixie Ann but didn’t want my initials to sound like a swear word so changed the middle name to Dawn. I don’t know where this comes from, but my preconceived idea of black names was that they were often precious stones, Ruby, Opal, Pearl, Emerald, Diamond, Topaz.
Those names you mentioned are "black" names from a previous generation.
My boo thing is Italian and his name is D’Angelo and my grandma was SHOOKETH when she saw he was white lol
Angelique Skyë 😂😂😂😂😂
I know an Italian with the last name of D'Angelo, but never first name.
That is my last name. 😀
Chris he has like 4 names can’t pronounce none of em. 😂
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The Freakonomics podcast recently interviewed Dr. Marijuana Pepsi Vandyck about her research into the way students with uncommon names are treated by teachers, classmates & school administrators. Azaneea/Azie: when you spoke about people not being motivated to learn your full given name, it reminded me of some of the discussions with students Dr. Vandyke spoke about in her interview. An affectionate nickname for a little baby is diminutive out of love, and feels very different from the explanation for a person choosing to not to learn your name because it’s “too hard.”
My sister and I have very common names , and my mom always told us she chose her our names because she didn’t want us to experience the same frustration she had with how people inevitably mispronounced her name. (She’s named Dana: pronounced Dan-na, rather than the more common Day-na)
I’d love to hear from parents about this...how have your feelings about your own names played a role in what you’ve named your children?
Gram named me Tamara, pronounced "tam-uh-ruh" (think "camera"). Most people pronounced it "ta-mare-uh"....it's happened so many times, half the time I respond like it's correct lol. But it's impossible to mispronounce my kids' names... Christina, Katherine, and Albert (altho we call him AJ)
My parents named me Mandy, yet people still lengthen it out and call me Amanda. When we had a son and discussed naming him Jake, we decided to name him Jacob because I thought people would lengthen his name anyway, and to give him the option of having a more formal name. He’s definitely Jake ;)
This backfired once when we had a plane ticket with his name as Jake and his passport has Jacob, someone comparing the two didn’t understand that Jake is the nickname of Jacob. I came this close to naming him Jakob.
My son's name has four letters, two syllables. It's Hebrew, and several people have called it "too hard". It sounds a little like "Liam", so people use that and say it's "more American". That's not difficulty, that's control. Especially the part where "Liam" is an "American" name.
My named is Dreamer pronounced dreamer lol and I swear people literally go out of their way to make up a name for me and they go “so it’s just like Dreamer, like in the dictionary? That’s cool” and I swear it’s because I’m black 😂
I just want to say how interesting and informative this is! Thank you for all of your hard work & research!
Ok ladies, it's time to take this show on the road. PBS do I hear an HBO/HULU/NETFLIX collaboration? No? Well, I should. Get on it! These women are a treasure. 💕👊💕
Mary Elizabeth
I agree! , but it important for us to be represented on PBS. It was refreshing to see these ladies on the landscape with such a fresh take on culture and history. Wherever they go, they will be awesome 👏🏾🎉
@@erikaarnold4780 absolutely! Having our culture represented and explained on PBS is wonderful and exciting. My idea to collaborate with additional platforms was made only to suggest expanding their media presence to inform a wider audience. I adore PBS.💕🤗💕
@@TheAmazingHuman
It would be great if they had sort of a "Vice" type formatted show where they could really get out in the streets with their stories. I would totally watch that...or anything they do...together... but I truly love a lot of the programming on PBS! 💖
Unless they start espousing conservative views, they are truly safe on CZcams and will reach a much wider audience here.
YES!!!
I died when the babies came out with box braids. But the video was amazing.
"Tyrone" is actually the Anglicization of the Irish "Tír Eoghain" -- pronounced not "tie-rone" but "tear owen," with a rolling "r" and stress on the "o" :)
Thank you for posting this. Approaching it this way makes people more receptive to hearing it, so well thought out and expressed. You both were so informative and funny. I'm someone who enjoys names with historic origins so this was right up my alley. Love it.
"Beke" actually means white/light skinned in some dialects in Igbo, so it's interesting to discover how that was translated into a name, versus a description.
But low key.. now we say that name to describe white/light women with light eyes and soft hair and we didnt even know that lol
@@AEHudg EXACTLY!!!
I'm from Dominica (not DR) and we call white and very light people Beke.
Tea Time With Eyek well I grew up and met a couple of Puerto Rican girls names Blanca and Blanca means translates as “white” in Spanish. The word “blanch” in English is probably related
Tea Time With Eyek it’s my old friend’s surname from his dad who is full Ghanaian
Shout out to Dr Marijuana Pepsi and her dissertation on this very topic!
Yessssss🙌🙌🙌🙌
I hear she's super nice too
I love this comment!! Dr.Pepsi making waves.
I really wish I was smart enough to find a dissertation and read it lol.
@@blacktea69 You wish you WERE smart enough...
This was very interesting! Thanks for making!
Thank you Ladies. This was fascinating!
Love the detail about adding French prefixes to names. I definitely learned something today
I'm French and for me, "Monique" is definitely a name for a white granny 😄 very interesting video ☺
I've only ever known one Monique & she was Mexican!
@@ThisCharmingBat omg I'm Mexican and my name is Monique too lol
I'm dutch and "Moniek" is an older lady who is very traditionally dutch, and probably friends with "Ingrid".
I knew a Korean-American named Monique.
😂😂😂
Asmeret: Eritrean name, mening it has lighten up 😊
That’s such a beautiful name.
@@peacelovercreater123 Thanke you so much 💚 I like your name too 💚
Happy Sun my middle name is way better. It’s Adelia
@@peacelovercreater123 omggg thats an amazing name 💚 What does it mean? 😊😄
Happy Sun it’s a German derivative of Nobility I think but I’m named after my great aunt
This is by far one of the best videos I have ever seen on CZcams. Thanks for sharing.
I'm Nycole with a Y because:
1. I was a c-section
2. There was a LOT of morphine involved
And
3. My mom thought it sounded French
Lmao bless your mom
Ericka with a C and a K because my mom couldn't decide which spelling she liked best🙄
I instantly thought Nyquil
Hey that's better than "Refuse" as in ref-yoos, ie garbage... the woman who shared a room with my mom at the hospital when she had me... she named her baby Refuse because she liked that "it sounded French" which is both brilliant and absurd because it actually is a French word... but for garbage.
@@myadagreat8975 the automatic messages from the school definitely pronounced my name as NyQuil
"My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.' Quick lesson: My tribe is Igbo, and you name your kid something that tells your history and hopefully predicts your future. So anyway, in grade school, because my last name started with an A, I was the first in roll call, and nobody ever knew how to pronounce it. So I went home and asked my mother if I could be called Zoe. I remember she was cooking, and in her Nigerian accent she said, 'Why?' I said, 'Nobody can pronounce it.' Without missing a beat, she said, 'If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.'" -- actress Uzo Adaba.
The same principle should apply to "black sounding" names and frankly, all names that are different than white normative names. Being faced with an unfamiliar name is just an opportunity to learn.
EDIT: Please read my whole comment. It's clear that I am quoting Uzo Adaba. I'm not speaking from experience.
Lol, ur mom is a real African!
why is your username a german name and a white pfp?
Man, idk about y’all, but as somebody who speaks Russian I’ve never met any white person who doesn’t speak Russian who can pronounce Tchaikovsky or Dostoyevsky
@@tijanaself897 Its a quote ... did u read the whole thing
@@Kiwi653 Rebecca needs to learn how to use paragraph breaks (enter/return key) to make her comments more readable and less confusing.
Plus start off with the name of the person she is quoting, as in
"To quote actress Uzo Adaba:
"My family is from ... "
I’ve always wondered where ‘Trayvon’ came from. Me friend’s daughter recently named her twin boys Trayvon and Vontre.
Patty J. Ayers oh that's really cute!
those are cute names. From what I looked up the name Trayvon means brave or the chosen one
p jealous much?
I'm not black but I was named after Nina Simone (My name is Kristina Simone). My mom loved her voice and her story and decided to name me after a powerful woman in the music industry.
"People didn't really want to learn my name, they acted like it was sort of a hassle."
Ffs how rude and selfish can you BE?? IT'S THEIR NAME. LEARNNNNNN ITTTTTTTTT.
My thoughts exactly! Minimum level courtesy: using a person's preferred name!
People lazy and selfish
Yup! 👏🏾
I know ! My Spanish teacher was always so rude to me and called me a different name all the time, my last name was constantly butchered even when I was being recognized positively. Being the only non Latino student in that class period just really sucked, and he knew to make sure I was different daily. Just learn my damn name
But I really identify with that because my name is Emmanda. If I don’t introduce myself as Emma, people think it’s Amanda and then get annoyed when I explain it.
I was thinking, "She is giving me major PBS vibes." And then I saw the PBS icons. Congrats!!!
This was fascinating and entertaining. Thank you!
xD the Moses reenactment had me burst into laughing. thank you for the laugh and knowledge. Needed it.
I learned a lot from this. The French prefixes especially. Great video!
Tyrone is still a place in Northern Ireland. 😅 A county to be exact.
Really... wow
Yep - from NI here. Know plenty of Irish (caucasian) men named Tyrone who have joked about going to America and people expect them to be black. Also it's pronounced "ter-own" as opposed to "tie-rown".
It comes from the Irish Tír Eoghan meaning Eoghan’s (Owen’s) land/country
Also a place in Georgia lol
cool to hear my name in a positive light for a change ☺️
I am so glad CZcams suggested this video for me to find you ladies. I thoroughly enjoyed this video! Can't wait to watch more. :)
That’s was really interesting and enlightening! THANKS!
French names started to become popular after Black troops came back from fighting WWII in France, which was also a catalyst for the Civil Rights movement. Black troops faced little racism abroad, only to have to come back to intense segregation under Jim Crow.
Also WWI.
Naturally they wouldn't face much racism from Europeans during WWII. Europe was destroyed in every way.
Regardless of their color, they were a part of the massive US military that was liberating them. The black soldiers were also well armed and trained, and thus the decimated European populous would have no way to fight their black liberators if they decided to be jerks and felt it was justified to act racist toward them and start a fight.
Prior to WWII, Europe was very racist and nationalistic. A number of European countries had oppressive and racist colonial assets in Africa and Asia. France and Britain had the largest colonial empires; certainly the largest presence in Africa, and French subjects were treated horribly (as were all colonial subjects).
Thanks for sharing!
@@NibblesTheNibbler Also the Europeans were just... less racist. Racist, sure, but... less.
The British population, for example, were disgusted at the notion of segregation when US brass wanted segregated pubs, and there was even a small... incident over it in Bamber Bridge.
You have to realise that in places where slavery just wasn't ever a thing (like the UK, where it was literally never legal) the general populous didn't exactly share the attitudes of the rich and powerful who had stakes in colonialism.
(Also as a side note, you have to remember than the Royal Navy literally blockaded Africa to stamp out the slave trade. Yes, there were likely selfish reasons for doing this, but the general public had to be sold on the idea that this was The Right Thing To Do.)
First black (and Native American) female pilot, Bessie Coleman, had to go to France to be taught how to fly because the US facilities refused to teach minorities. France was far less racist and sexist than American.
My sons name is Darius, which is a Persian name, but I can't tell you how many times people say it's a black name. I'm from Germany and didn't know that it mattered until I came to the states.
Not just Persian but one of the greatest Persian rulers who gave Greece hell if I remember right
He is the champion from league of legends :3
I love Darius and Armon
In Persian it's Daryush, Darius(Dario in spanish) is a latinization of the Persian name. Like Cyrus in English, but Kourosh in Persian. And even Persia is a western name, it comes from the southern province in Iran called Pars, the Greeks called the people and the place persis and the city Parsa persepolis.
This is also a popular polish name
I love your given name! No one says my mother’s name correctly, but I love it. This is a great way of teaching. Thank you❤️
We pass down old family names as a way of fostering a connection to our past, and remembering those who came before.
Interesting, as a British person I would have never associated the names Tyrone or Natasha with black Americans. For Tyrone I think of Ireland and for Natasha the immediate image is Russia.
Same!! But I think that's a European thing :)
Well it depends how you're saying Tyrone. If its Tie-rone, that's black, if it's tuh-rone, emphasis on the second syllable, that's more Irish, to me, at any rate
Really?!?!? Lol that’s weird asf being from u.s.
Yeah they were saying that Tasha is the Black version of Natasha
Me too, I'm south american, and when hearing Natasha i think of someone slavic, and when hearing tyrone I think of the Backyardigans character lol
Everyone deserves the minimum of respect and having their names pronounced correctly. It takes 2 seconds to double ask their name and pronunciation.
Sometimes it is a bit more difficult than that, like when languages use letters or sounds that we don't have.
Like in Japanese, they use the rolling consonant "lr" sound. So there might be a name like Kilralra which uses sounds we don't typically use. Since we don't use it, our ear isn't trained to hear it, and we have difficultly conceptualizing what is being said.
That "lr" is also where the stereotypical Japanese "Helro" comes from. They do not have the letter "L" in their alphabet, so most can not make the "L" sound without the "R."
Whether an American is struggling with Kirlarla, or a Japanese with Lily, there are languages barriers that can affect our ability to interpret and repeat names properly.
Granted, some people are just ass hats who intentionally act like pricks and love to microagress on massive levels.
I am around a lot of people (Vietnamese) who can not pronounce my name correctly do to English not being their first language. I'm not in the least offended. It's the manor in which you mispronounced a name, not the fact you mispronounced it. I can't pronounce their names well either. Love and respect is the issue, not what you call someone!
Amanda Kay Howell I agree, one thing is phonetic relevance and the other is the fact that some people just don’t care at all or aim to pronounce it correctly.
I met once a man from Africa whose name was Anotidaishe. First time I had heard that name so I asked again so I could pronounce it correctly. He told me he was grateful with me for being interested in pronouncing his name the right way. Imagine being grateful with someone for using the most basic rule of cordiality with you.
Well i live in the netherlands and i have to retell my name like 5 times for people to pronounce it right
People don't do it here 😂 but I'm also way to shy to correct someone when they say my name so there are a lot of people who mispronounce my name and i don't know what to do when they find out they were saying it wrong 😭😂
Now why in tf is my name in the thumbnail 🤦🏾♂️😂
They really like your name. They mentioned it several times. 😉
LMAO
Aye uncle Darnell
This was so great and such fun!!!
This was great. Thank you.
Why yall pullBrandy out the water like that!!??!?!?! Im SCREAMING
i've been known to have no sense!!! lolololol
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DEAD.🤣🤣🤣
I hollered!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
“It’s giving me a working at the pyramid tonight vibe” FRANK OCEAN REFERENCE YESSS
chloe 121 YAAS I CAUGHT IT TOO!
This video was so interesting and informative. Thanks ladies!
Dr. Marijuana Pepsi Vandyck was able to make the best of her name. She embraced it and that’s admirable to me. 😁
Beader4life I legit thought that was a new flavor of soda til I saw she did something great! 😂🤣😂🤣😂
RedDragon Smaug ☺️
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@@jasminepearls1047 Are you being sarcastic?
Btw, cool name--please don't spear anybody though! Lol
That is unique.
My father named me Vanity beacuse he loved prince. The end. It's cute so I'll take it.
it's super cute, let them tell they say your name is west African and it means the one who got looked at, or its Swahili, your dad read an Arabic book and got your name out of there.
like c'mon people.
these are Africans in these videos, trying to rob us of our uniqueness but notice how they encouraged African sounding names. like who tf in 2019 would name their baby Tyrone??
do they not know black American names of 2019???
nope because they're African
That is soo cute i like your name!!!
Yudah El I get what you're saying but it is true that alot of traditional Black American sounding names are inspired by African names. In the 60's and 70's black Americans got more into their culture as well as Islam and you start seeing names like Aisha, Khadijah, Latifah, Fatima, etc. Those are Muslim/Arabic names. And then you go into the 70's and 80's and you see more variety to those names - Lateefah, Shateefah, Khadeejah, Iyesha....etc. African names like Tinashe, Kwame, erc became names like Tanisha, and the Quan and Quana (Dequan, Naquan, Shaquana; etc) names you see alot of during the 80's and 90's. So really it isn't about being 'unique'. It's just another developed culture.
More to the point French and Irish names also played a part in the development of Black Americans names...using De or La as the prefix and use of hyphens is from France. So are names ending in 'ique' or accent 'e'. Ique would eventually lead to 'iqua' so names like Shanique and Shaniqua are basically French inspired. And so are names ending is 'isse' 'issa' and 'isha'. Names like Shawn, Shavon, Kiara, Kiana, Breanna, Tiana, Shanay, Sasha are inspired by Irish names - Sean, Siobhan, Briana, Ciara, Sinead, and Saoirse.
It's more to it than you think than just being unique or being robbed of our uniqueness. Everything has a meaning or a reason than just throwing letters in the air and making stuff up.
I have a friend named Glorious Joy because she was just that when she was born. Her parents struggled to conceive.
Vanity Insanity I respect your Dad and love your name.
Great job Bd excellent research!
I LOVE learning about names, and this was so much more informational than I thought it would be.
This video came up on my recommended videos and I’m so glad I watched it. It’s so interesting and informative! Thank you girls.
My name is Ifeoluwayimika, which in Yoruba (Nigeria) means ‘Surrounded by the Love of God)’. My mum said that my grandpa always gave his children a slightly different version of your standard/typical Nigerian names. Along with my other 12 names, each with different meanings, nobody calls me my full first name. So I go by Ife (means love), which growing up in the UK was difficult to pronounce for your non-Nigerian people. So for ease of others, my mum introduced me in school as “Iffy” as apposed to “If-eh”. Only until I got to university at 18, did re-introduce myself as “If-eh”. 😊
Lol I just wrote a mini essay by accident, my bad! Great video though! 👍🏾👌🏾
It was interesting to read though! And that's a beautiful name
That's a fun name to say.
Thank you for sharing your story Ife! Beautiful name
Wow! Your name is sooo beautiful!!
Hey! I'm Ifeoma and went all through school with the same nickname, but spelled it Iffey. Now I insist on people using my full name
Why'd she draw Brandy out the water with this wig!!!? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂💀
I love this!!!!! I’m going to show this in my class.
There were a lot of interesting ways that people came up with names that suited them, or they felt were powerful.
My first name is Misty, and my middle name is Dawn. I was born very early in the morning, and that is what my mother saw. I liked a couple of older ladies I knew joking that I had a 'retro' baby name. XD
My name is pretty “normal” but I chose to give my daughter an African name...I chose a Swahili based name, “Niara”, which derives from “Nia” meaning utmost purpose ❤️
EDIT: several Swahili speakers informed me that Niara is NOT from the language but I love the name, the meaning that I found and I’m still considering it as a unique, black name and an homage to my African ancestors ❤️
Danielle Wise that’s such a pretty name. One of my first best friends were named that❤️❤️
My sister’s name is Niara too!
There you go. I think that's what I would do too... I scrolled down bracing for this thread to be pure evil, and was pleasantly surprised! Thanks for sharing your experience.
My name is Danielle and my daughters name is Niah. Wow!! Great minds think alike.
giggleberry juice omg!!! What a coincidence! That’s amazing! LOL great minds DO think alike! ❤️
I have the same name as my grandfather. Anytime we were together, he'd introduce himself and say, "I'm named after him." Always made me smile.
I have a cousin named Wesley. I always thought it was an elder person's name.
I am named after my grandfather too. 😀
This was interesting, thank you!
You girls KILL these video! Excellent job!
As a white person, I found this very interesting and informative. I try to be knowledgeable on as many topics as I can be and this helped me with that. knowing these things can help with those little prejudices we all deny having. Thank you.
As a white person named Emmanda, people have thought I’m black just on paper, so I see a little of the prejudice, and it causes awkward interactions in job search scenarios.
@@emmandaline I feel you my name looks like I have a green card I was born in West Covina my mom's people were here prior to English Colonization but it was all because of my African Asian Father I get the *AM I speaking to such and such or is there interpreter? Or the "OH" look where are you from... ATLANTA by way of California*🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿
I'm a white racist and I like this video. I have no problem with black people butchering the English language. They should have their own names. Maybe there's an honorable respected older black lady musician who could become the queen of African American etiquette and write a list of proper black names
@@georgeboehringer5530
The the English language itself is a butchered amalgamation of other Latin languages.
@@zulephizus1212 I think it's funny how different places of the world have their own take on the English language
Evelyn rubbing her “pregnant” belly at the end 😂🤣💀 never break character 😂
Love the knowledge provided ..and the humor added...keep em Coming!!!!
I'm in love with this knowledge. As someone whose name was a common 'esha' name (and shortened because people couldn't pronounce it.. and when they heard the whole name it was somehow 'ghetto' because they didnt understand or more so Want To understand ) I appreciate this. The beginning of my name is actually french and changed slightly to match the first letter of my grandmother's name. That's the trend for most of my name, the beginning letter is of someone of importance to my parent who named me. It goes deep and I'm so appreciative of it. Thank you again for doing this.
My name is Sonseray, pronounced son-sir-ay meaning morning star. Took awhile to grow into but I couldn't imagine having another name.
Saucy X wow that’s a gorgeous name! I always wanted a more interesting name, but my initials spell elf.. so.. that’s something?
Love that! It reminds me of the Spanish word sonreir which means to smile :)
I think it's a beautiful name! I love it.
You are blessed to have such a beautiful name!
that's a beautiful original name; sounds like "summers day"
This has actually changed my view on what I would call "ghetto" names. Thank you
I like this video so much!! Thank you for making it!
Really mad at CZcams for hiding this gem from me!!!! Love the history and loved hearing family members names in there!!! ❤️❤️❤️