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Yep

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Keisha is a white name around here, though.

Man....I'm sorry to hear that, because one of the things I fight against is the perception that African American name necessarily = low-socioeconomic class. That perception is what really causes people to deny that there even is such a thing as an African-American name, because they think that to identify it as such is the same thing as assuming low-socioeconomic class and thus they think it's racist to say, "This is an African-American name." I've always said that what is racist is to deny that there is such a class of names, because the wish to do so springs from racist assumptions.

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Anyway, I live in a state where there is a high percentage of African-Americans, my SO is African-American (although he personally hates being called that, preferring to be called black), my workplace employs many African-Americans, so I know darn well that there are African-American names.