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I decline to pass judgment on Ja'Nay, Ah'Myiah Le'Evelyn, Janayah, Ja'Kyree Le'Royce, and Au'monnie, as I think that these are obviously of African-American origin. Not saying there isn't a small chance that one or some of all of the babies who were given those names aren't African-American, however, that's where the names obviously have their roots so I decline to comment. There are a few others, Xzavier, Antoin, Lamar, and Tycius, that are more ambiguous, but I still feel with these that I'd rather decline to judge them.

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So many of the rest are horrible. It's easier to list the not horrible ones than the horrible ones. Not horrible, speaking of just the first names: Sierra, Chloe, Lauren, Sophia, Lillie, Owen, Levi, Gary, Ethan, Daniel, Joshua, Isaiah, Isaac, Charles, and Adam. Now some of these are or have been overused and thus show no imagination or originality, but they're not horrible. The rest are a horrible mix of names that are either horrible or misspelled or horrible and misspelled. Karrion? For God's sake, Karrion? Misspelled dead animals? Among the horribleness, that one stands out, as does, to a lesser extent, Gauge.

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I had a gay male friend named Derek and I used to call him Dereka as a joke. Didn't know it was a real name.

This message was edited 4/7/2014, 5:58 AM