Not to derail your thread DL, but your post, SM, reminded me of a story that I heard from an elementary school teacher that said that she was looking over her student roster before the first class and noticed a name that she was sure had to be a misprint. She rushed to the office and checked it against the registration form and the roster was indeed correct. So when class started she nervously called on the student in question, "Miss X, could you tell me how you pronounce your first name?" The poor kid's first name was spelled S-H-I-T-H-E-A-D. 
That's an old joke, but still a cute one. The way I heard it, the name was "Shi'Thead" and pronounced "shuh-
THEED".
Some of the less-outlandish black names are actually all right, Malik, Jamal, Ahmad, and the like, aside from being Muslim-inspired, aren't bad. And another fairly common black male name is Kyrie, which is heard in the TLM (but usually pronounced "ky-ree"). And names such as Latisha, Felicia, and Katrina are actually forms of saints' names.
Topic: Baby names? (Read 2048 times)