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[Facts] History of African American names
History of African American names.
I noticed that the website is missing facts and history of origin of African American names. And you are the category has lots of fakes of origin I wonder why this is? I'm interested in the origins of these particular names, can anyone give some facts? examples could be Sonequa, Larhonda and Bejonce.
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Some user of this site submitted the following info about Beyoncé:
http://www.behindthename.com/name/beyonce10/submittedAbout Larhonda:
http://www.behindthename.com/name/larhonda/submitted
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Sorry about the Apple autocorrect. I mean facts not fa I mean facts not fakes
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I am sorry, but even with auto-correction back-corrected I don't understand this question of yours:"And you are the category has lots of facts of origin I wonder why this is?"Do you wonder why for many names there are not a lot of facts about the origin? Well, I think mostly because no good and reliable facts are known.And then there is this other thing: Many African-American names were coined or invented quite recently, or built out of short names and good-sounding syllables joined together, so "invented" or "combined" would be about the only facts that are to be known there.
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Thanks. But all names have origins somewhere in culture and language and place. This there seem to be a French influence in names starting with "la" and ending on "ce" for instance
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There seems to be a keypad an there seems to be a pattern in these names. "Q" and "sha" is often used. As in Tanisha. Seem to have been Middle East seem to have been middle east influence.
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