Antoine

Typical African American name but I like this one because it's also the French version of Anthony. Antwan just looks ghetto...

I thought it'd already become a common alternative of Anthony in English areas. It'd even got a standard English pronunciation. So I see it as a part of history and culture.

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You can't say another language is trashy just because people in the ghetto speak it. Their motherlands were colonized. Hating the poor is not a virtue.

Filthy pretentious.

It's alright, but I prefer Anthony. Also, I don't think of this name as ghetto. Spellings like Antwan, on the other hand...

This name doesn't sound trashy to me at all.

As a native Frenchman, I can say that this is a perfectly lovely name. It's such a shame that Americans think of it as an exclusively black name. It's even worse to see it butchered into spellings like Antwan, Antwon, or Antawn. I know lots of Antoines, both white and black. No one here regards Antoine as trashy. (On the contrary, Anthony is considered a bit trashy in France, since it's an English form of a name that already has a common French form, and most anglophones wouldn't consider Anthony trashy.)