Naming Black Children

[PrezLeefun]

Ok just for the hell of it just because it is funny: How black people name their kids.

If a perfectly nice name like Jennifer is given to a black girl it will be spelled in such a fashion that you will never get it right. Jenefur.

If it sounds obnoxious... it probably belongs to a black girl. Shenanay, Shenainae, and Shenaynay dont make for modest name variations... and little white girls dont have those names either.

Black boys get an easier break. The spelling will of course be jacked up. But if he is lucky he will get a Hebrew name thinking its gangsta. Zephaniah be badass.


So there is your short lesson in Naming Black Children. And yes, I too am a victim.... so badly that even black people dont know what to do with it.

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Bwwwahahahaaa

That's funny, right thar, don'care whoyar, :lol:






For the record, if yer gonna name yore redneck chillun's you have to give them at least 2 middle names, and one of them better be Bob, Sue, Joe. Lou, or Ann. :biggrin:

[PrezLeefun]

Redneck babies is another thread Homes..... :lol:

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Redneck babies is another thread Homes..... :lol:

:thumb: Jes' keepin' it real, girlfriend, :lol:

[Neil Peart]

I personally think that black people come up with names for their daughters by writing down phonetic interpretations of what the Swedish Chef says.

[DesertFox]

Zephaniah be badass.http://freeconservatives.com/smilies/doggie.gif

[Suzie]

I remember in the south years ago black girls were often named after flowers. Pansy, Daisy, Rose, and Violet are some I remember.

[PrezLeefun]

Well those are nice normal names. Then the 1980's ruined all that nice normal naming.

[Suzie]

I knew a little black girl named Cookie when I was in school, she was really sweet. :biggrin:

Seriously she was a nice girl.

[Lubbock]

I knew a black lady who named her daughter Polly Esther.

[PrezLeefun]

lol suz

[DesertFox]

Back in the Eighties Mike Royko, a columnist for a Chicago paper for decades, took extreme heat for observing exactly what you're observing now, Prez. Of course, those were the early years of political correctness, the opening salvos of that part of the culture war. Royko died soon after all that, but today anyone not black who says what he said, gets gone. This was around the time of the Buzzy Bavasi firing.

To be sure, black folks have long had a penchant for interesting names. Sojourner Truth is there for all to admire. My ma worked in the Kansas City post office for 20 years. Knew a black guy named Jack Fish, changed his name to Jack Mackrel.

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

I went to school with a Tawana .... had never heard that name before or since, until the Rev. Al.

My daughter was on the weightlifting team with Feonna and Mercedes, and now plays softball with LarVarsha and LaPortia. :smirky:

[Suzie]

There was a Preacher here named Harry Leg. And my mom went to school with Bun Crumb.

[Lubbock]

I knew a white woman who named her daughter Summer Fleet.

I never heard that kid's name spoken that I didn't think, "enema."

Why anyone of any color or creed hangs an outlandish name on a kid, a name that the kid will have to live with their entire life, is beyond me.

[CzechPrince]

I knew a Candi Cane in middle school.

She was white though lol.

[Neil Peart]

I knew a Candi Cane in middle school.

She was white though lol.Apparently her parents wanted to raise a porn star.

[Suzie]

Bun Crumb was white also. I am not sure about Harry Leg.

[PrezLeefun]

OMG these names.... Jack Mackrel! Harry Leg! Get outta here! This thread has taken on a life of its own.

[ColonialMarine0431]

Dick Bender

I swear! He's an assistant coach at Tulane.

[PrezLeefun]

Now that one is just special..... does he know Candi Cane? :evilgrin:

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Okay, my dad's advertising guy for their business was named Bud Wiser.

A man came in to apply for a job when I was the receptionist at a company, and the man's name was Donald Duck.

When working for that same company, I was in charge of sending information out to sales leads -- people who respond to those little return cards in magazines. I sent a packet of information about shelving to John B. Everhard.

My mother, when doing her nursing internship, was in the maternity ward when a black baby boy was born and given the name Lemonjello.

All true.

[Suzie]

I knew a Dick Holelicker. Yes I am serious.

[Timberwolf]

Then again....famous NASCAR driver....Dick Trickle. His parents are evil.

[Timberwolf]

Lemonjello....lemme guess...it was pronounced LeMON JElow (emphasis on the capitalized portions)

[Suzie]

You would think if you had a certain last name and your name was Richard you would go with Rich ... or Rick... something other than Dick.

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Lemonjello....lemme guess...it was pronounced LeMON JElow (emphasis on the capitalized portions)

How'd you guess?!!

That's the way my Mom said it when she first told me ... then she wrote it on a piece of paper so I could read it. :lol:

[BuckeyeMike]

Friend named Russ DeBolt.

Wife's classmate Jack Goff.

Customer on my paper route when I wuz uh younger......Despert Cox.

[nrocpop]

Some creative names reportedly of black children in Arkansas, Orangejello and Lemonjello

[Suzie]

Although I never met them, I am told at another local High School when I attended my High School there were twins named Ima Pancake and Ura Pancake.

[PrezLeefun]

^^^Oh Good Lord.... why do people do that to their kids? :lol:

[ThomasMore]

There is a lawyer in Chicago named John Scott Hoff (http://www.aviationattorney.com/profiles/john.shtml). For some reason, he never goes by "Jack."

[ColonialMarine0431]

There is a lawyer in Chicago named John Scott Hoff (http://www.aviationattorney.com/profiles/john.shtml). For some reason, he never goes by "Jack."

He's a lawyer. Maybe he should.

[nrocpop]

Arkansas aain ShethEEd spelled Sh*thead

[Wolfcounsel]

There's the story about a man who wanted his name changed. His name was Joe Krapp. He wanted it changed to Al Krapp, because he was tired of people greeting him with "What do you know, Joe?"

[MaxLoad]

Back in the '90s I dated a nurse who recounted that one of her patients had named her newborn little girl, 'Fe-mal-le'.

[TeenageRepublican]

I once knew a teacher that had the name of Michael Hawk. Not a bad name? He used to go by Mike Hawk. One day, a student said it really fast and well... you get the picture.

[PrezLeefun]

hehe hehe hehe :evilgrin:

[MSGT]

My newest niece is named La'Nieyah:rolleyes:

[Elgalad]

This is slightly off topic, but I don't get the "new" trend to name children after occupations.

It's not exactly new I know, probably been around since long before soap opera stars of the 1980's encouraged young ladies to start planning their future sons named "Cooper, Hunter, and Mason" but I still don't get the point of it.

I mean is this a subconscious way to encourage a child to pursue a particular career field when they reach maturity?

If so, I think it might behoove them far better to bestow names like "Astronaut, or Robberbaron, or Superstar" than other, far lesser names.

As for girls.. same thing, only worse. When I hear a young woman introduce herself as "Hunter", "Taylor", or "Madison", I die a little inside.


I know I'm old fashioned.. but I do miss the good old days when Jimmy, Bob, Karen, and Julie were the norm, rather than the exception.


-Elgalad

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

I know I'm old fashioned.. but I do miss the good old days when Jimmy, Bob, Karen, and Julie were the norm, rather than the exception.

I am old-fashioned in many ways, but when it comes to names I really don't care for "normal" names. Both of my children have what I would consider (and others would, I think, because many have said so) to be unique/unusual names. There was actually a family here who named their child with our son's name, after hearing his (though not spelled the same way).

I think the reason I so dislike "normal" names because my father's name was John. He was a junior (named after his father), and he got called every nickname in the book: Jr., Bubba, Snooky, etcl, and just really, really hated it. I can still hear him complaining about it, remember listening to him tell my Mom ow much he disliked it. It stuck with me.

The one GOOD thing about my children having unique names, they can't get away with anything, because EVERYBODY in my little town knows who they are, and they'll let us know what's going on, :) .

[garlicguy]

Dick Bender

I swear! He's an assistant coach at Tulane.

Didn't act as the coach in "Bend it like Beckham"?

[mkafrica]

Going back to black names... I know a girl named Tandalayor. I think it's pronounced Tanda-lair.

Oh, and I knew a girl growing up named Crystal Shanda Lier. Her parents didn't realize it until their daughter asked them why they named her like that... :D

[Wolfcounsel]

Is the story about the guy who named his brother's fraternal twins, true or what? He named the girl Deniece, and he named the boy, Denephew.

[Longhorn_Platinum]

CzechPrince:
I knew a Candi Cane in middle school.

:moo: I went to school with a girl named Candy Roll, & a boy named Stacey Lacey, & a boy named Bud Riser.

[Longhorn_Platinum]

mkafrica:
Her parents didn't realize it until their daughter asked them why they named her like that... :D

:moo: There was once an Indian tribe where it was the custom for the chief to name all the new babies. One day a young brave asked his chief how he came up with some of the names of the children in the village. "Well, I just look in the distance, & whatever I see, that's the name I give to the child. For example, when your brother was born, I saw a deer jumping over a bush, so I named him 'Jumping Deer'. Your cousin is named 'Running Horse', because when he was born, I saw a running horse. So, why do you ask me this, Two Dogs Fu¢king?"

[Longhorn_Platinum]

Suzie:
Although I never met them, I am told at another local High School when I attended my High School there were twins named Ima Pancake and Ura Pancake.

:moo: Jim Hogg County, Texas is named after the late governor. He really did have a daughter named Ima. She never married.

[Longhorn_Platinum]

:moo: BTW, after reading all the funny name scenarios, I guess that I should mention that I have an unusual "redneck" double nickname. I don't normally give out my name over the internet, but it's contained in this sentence. Can you guess what it is?

[Gonzo67]

My guess would be Norm. Short for Norman.

[Taylor1]

All black kids I know have the weirdest and funniest names, I'm not being racist or anything but have names like, "lashanda" or "lashwanda" and don't forget "tyrone" "tamika" "jeremiah springfield" wait what? But yeah, really weird names.

[MaxLoad]

Now wait a minute... Tyrone is an old, old Irish name.:biggrin:

[Suzie]

What are Obama's kids names?

[Wolfcounsel]

"What are Obama's kids names?" --Suzie

I hope not Lama and Dingdong.

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

"What are Obama's kids names?" --Suzie

I hope not Lama and Dingdong.

:biglaugh:

[Suzie]

I guess he was a black kid with a weird name at one point in time as well.

[Longhorn_Platinum]

Gonzo67:
My guess would be Norm. Short for Norman.

:moo: That's not double.

[Neil Peart]

What are Obama's kids names?One of them is probably named Karl, after one of his idols.

[buckeyepete]

LP! How about 'Guess What' ............?

[DeclinetoState]

My newest niece is named La'Nieyah:rolleyes:What is this thing about starting a name with "La" and ending it with "ah" (often "shah" or "sha")?

[DeclinetoState]

I knew a girl in high school named Kelli Kelly. We used to ask her questions like, "Do you prefer to go by your first name or your last?"

I don't know what her middle name was.

[bigred1says]

My grandfather was Kirby Pinkerton Hickey, he was known as Pink.

[BaronKelan]

I have a grandson named Kimo and his sister is named KaiNani. My son-in-law is half Hawaiian.

[Oldeshooter]

Most of the teen mothers who are give birth are not married, have dropped out of school and do not know how to spell. ... Mothers of Hispanic origin don't seem to have the same trouble with names just in giving birth without the benefit of marriage.



Edited by DF to elide gratuitously offensive material.

[DeclinetoState]

Mothers of Hispanic origin don't seem to have the same trouble with names just in giving birth without the benefit of marriage.<!-- / message -->True. Half the boys in any classroom with Hispanics in it will be named Juan, José, Jesús, or Jorge. Meanwhile, María and Juana seem to be far more common than their English counterparts, Mary and Jane.

[PrezLeefun]

Most of the teen mothers who are give birth are not married, have dropped out of school and do not know how to spell. ... Mothers of Hispanic origin don't seem to have the same trouble with names just in giving birth without the benefit of marriage.

This thread was intended to be fun, not mean spirited.

[DesertFox]

Juana? I've lived and worked among Hispanics for over 20 years and have yet to meet a girl named "Juana."

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Juana? I've lived and worked among Hispanics for over 20 years and have yet to meet a girl named "Juana."

Maybe he meant "Juanita"?

[DesertFox]

Maybe so, but I haven't heard that one, either.

Both are perfectly acceptable names for girls, but I haven't heard either used.