elementary school kid names

[flea]

Children from Casper's school who have art in display at the University this month (ages K-5th grade):
Laura
Aleshia
Kiara
Davion
Ty’Quavious
Cristina & Kenya (probably siblings)
Ziah
Carolina
Quindarius
Kim
Danarius
Victor
Haleema
Shaqrius & Shycrius (probably siblings - how do they pronounce the names so they sound different, I wonder - "shack" and "shy"?)
Juan
Elizabeth
Jordan
Stacey
Uriel
Ty’Dria
Jetssiri
Tiger Lili
A warning to anyone making assumptions about ethnicity based on naming style - I don't know any of these kids personally (I think they are mostly in the older grades), but I did have the last names, and basically, the names are all over the map, as far as Anglo name plus Latino last name, African-American style name plus Latino last name, Latino name plus Anglo/Afam last name. Make no assumptions about what a given kid would look like!

Comments

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

The apostrophe (not indicating a glottal stop or really, anything at all) is a pretty common part of 'kre8ive' spelling across the board. There are Ry'leighs, for example. It is as one with the superfluous 'y'.

[veejane.livejournal.com]

Okay, now Ry'Leigh is really unfortunate, unless that child grows up to be a big fan of H. P. Lovecraft.

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

I just remembered, a woman at my work has a 2 year old named Sha'Miracle.

[ellenbs.livejournal.com]

I know three Kermits (two as a middle name - not sure if that counts). I think it's an old New England name. Wasn't one of the Roosevelts a Kermit?

The '-ius' ending for African-American names may be a family thing - if you read through old lists of slave names, they were often given names from classical history or from plays. I knew a guy named Titus, who was named after an ancestor who had been named after a family slave who had saved his sister from drowning.

Also, Sha'Miracle actually made me do a spit-take.

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

There are (were) several Kermit Roosevelts - son, grandson, great-grandson, and great-great grandson (the last being our age: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_Roosevelt_III) of Teddy. I also went to prep school with a (different) Kermit, who was a III or IV or something as well.

[veejane.livejournal.com]

Now see, there the apostrophe is necessary, so that you don't look at her name and think, "Sham wow!" It breaks up the syllables properly.