elementary school kid names

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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

[(Anonymous)]

Tyrone is the Anglicized version of an Irish place name. In the Gaelic, the prefix is spelled Tir, which means "land of," as in Tirconnell, or land of the Connell family. Not sure that it relates to African American naming patterns, but there is a linguistic precedent for "Ty" to be attached to different names.