will anyone ever be called roger again?

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To me, Nigel is the quintissential British name. I guess that is what I get from watching too much Famil Guy. Is it common for black britons to use infuse African culture into their children's names? I went to school with a lot of Shaquitas or a common name with a "La" thrown on the front ie LaMichael.

That must be an African American thing.

I don't even understand where those names come from.

I read a book by two economists and they studied, using econoomic principals, whatever that means, a bunch of stuff. One subject was the effect that 'very' African-American sounding names have on a child's earning potential. They focused on two brothers- Orangejello and Lemonjello (o-RON-gello and le-MON-jello) and a girl named Shithead (sh-TEE-odd). They figured it would hurt your earning potential pretty bad to be named Shithead.
I have a friend that has a 19 year old son. I was talking about how, when I was a kid, a boy named 'Skyler' would either have to be a fighting mofo or drop out of school in the first grade. The 19 year old said that he had gone to school with a 'Skyler' and that 'Skyler' was a bully. That really cracked me up.