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Help[Facts] Re: Thanks (and a related question about French names)
in reply to a message by LH
Or is it possible that names like Jamal and Rashad became popular among Black Americans because their sounds already fitted into Black naming patterns? As far as I know, neither of those names are particularly significant in Islam - why didn't the much more distinctly Muslim Muhammad and Abdullah (and Fatima and Khadija for girls) become more popular in Black communities? Maybe because they just didn't have as fashionable a sound as Jamal and the others.
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