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Baby Names
There are 150 baby names in this category.
Demarco
The name Demarco is a baby boy name. The name Demarco comes from the African-American origin. In African- ...
Dion
The name Dion is a baby boy name. The name Dion comes from the African-American origin. In African-Americ ...
Chikae
The name Chikae is a baby boy name. The name Chikae comes from the African-American origin. In African-Am ...
Beyonce

The name Beyonce is a baby girl name. The name Beyonce... Read More

African American Baby Names 

Surveys about naming a baby boy or girl established that the information required included classic, unusual, unique, exotic divided into a list of girl and boy names.

Many people requested boy or girl name meanings and origins and were interested in ascertaining the most popular boy or girl names and how these have changed through the course of time.

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Columbus discovered America, from the perspective of Europeans. Queen Isabella of Spain declared all indigenous peoples her subjects, in the lands claimed by Columbus for Spain, preventing the Spanish conquerors from enslaving the Native Americans. The Spanish thus looked elsewhere for the labor they needed to take advantage of the New World's economic opportunities.
1501

• Spain permitted African slaves to be sent to the Americas
1511

• first African slaves arrived in Hi... Read More

• Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.

• I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you respect for the use of power. I leave you faith. I leave you racial dignity.

• We live in a world which respects power above all things. Power, intelligently directed, can lead to more freedom.

• Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for maki... Read More

Born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri, she later took the name Baker from her second husband, Willie Baker, whom she married at age 15.

Surviving the 1917 riots in East St. Louis, Illinois, where the family was living, Josephine Baker ran away a few years later at age thirteen and began dancing in vaudeville and on Broadway. In 1925, Josephine Baker went to Paris where, after the jazz revue La Revue Nègre failed, her comic ability and jazz dancing drew attention of the... Read More

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