Black Names

Black or African-American names are used by people of African ancestry living in the United States.

Given names used by black people are often invented or creatively-spelled variants of more traditional names. Some names are created using fashionable syllables, for example the prefixes La- or De- and the suffixes -ique or -isha. Also, punctuation marks like apostrophes and dashes are sometimes used (though infrequently).

See also American names.