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African American Baby Names

Recently African American baby names have set the trend for unusual and unique baby names. The addition of a prefix like “La” or “Da” or “Ja” to “Sean” creates “Lasean” or “Dasean”. The creative use of capitalization, hyphens and apostrophes can further exoticize the name to “LaSean”, “Da-Sean” or “Ja’ron”.

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Below is a brief ABC list of popular baby names often given to African American girls. A comprehensive list will show the most popular names tend to begin with “J”, “K”, “L”, “S” and “T”, with a noticeable use of prefixes and hyphens and apostrophes. Also the most popular suffix is the “eesha” sound in all its possible spelling variations: “iesha”, “isha”, “eisha”, “easha” and “yesha”.

Aiesha	Gelisa	Mercedes	Shereece	Zelda
Brianna	Hosanna	Nyesha	Tameka
Chantrelle	Illisha	Odessa	Vantrice
De’Lisha	Janeka	Precious	Whoopi
Ebony	Kaneasha	Queisha	Xaviera
Fajah	Ladawnah	Re’shaun	YoLanda

Here’s a list of African American baby names for boys, a single example for each letter of the alphabet. Again a comprehensive list will show that names beginning with “D”, “J”, “L” and “T” are the most popular.

Antoine	Glover	Marvin	Spike	Yemane
Benton	Hareem	Nelson	Tyrone	Zachary
Cleavon	Isaiah	Omarr	Umar
Darnel	Jamal	Pearson	Vashan
Evander	Keandre	Quincy	Wendell
Ferric	Lavon	Rodney	Xavier

There’s a wonderful variety and inventiveness shown in many African American baby names. Sometimes these names set the trend for the rest of the population to follow. And occasionally, a simple misspelling leads to a one-of-a-kind memorable name; for example, for a girl who becomes the most popular television talk show host and one of the wealthiest women in the world. The story being that the Biblical name of “Orpah” found in the book of Ruth became “Oprah” and history was made.

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