# Given names these days **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 10, 2017, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/given-names-these-days/798424 "2017-10-10T00:48:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 30
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/given-names-these-days/798424/30 "2017-10-12T04:33:56Z")
> [@papaw](#): > > I guess I am asking the wrong question. > Without any disrespect to African-Americans, the names I am asking about are the ones that in the last 25 years or so have surfaced with odd to me spellings and unknown origins. > Some examples are- > Jedeveoon, Bonquisha,Tanisha, T’a nay, Deshaun, Tayshaun, Deron, Rau’shee, Raynell, Deontay, Taraje, Jozy, Kerron, Hyleas, Chaunte, Bershawn, Lashawn, Sanya, Trevell, Sheena, Ogonna, Dremiel , and many others. > “it is largely and profoundly the legacy of African-Americans,” writes Eliza Dinwiddie-Boyd in her baby-naming book “Proud Heritage.” Shalondra and Shaday, Jenneta and Jonelle, Michandra and Milika – in some parts of the country today, nearly a third of African-American girls are given a name belonging to no one else in the state (boys’ names tend to be somewhat more conservative). > Why is this so ? Forget about ever getting a job with a name like that, assuming you stay out of jail long enough to ever apply for one. (well, it’s true) --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/given-names-these-days/798424)._