[PennsylvaniaMom]

I am related to a Caucasian Clarence, as well as a Caucasian Precious (she was very premature-now in 20s went to school w/my son).

Going to HS w/son right now, I can think of two AfAm girls who use very “white” nicknames as opposed to their more vowel enhanced given names.

The study might really be “on” to something though. Names really are cyclical.

[ilovesarah2012]

Map: Six Decades of the Most Popular Names for Girls, State-by-State

http://jezebel.com/map-sixty-years-of-the-most-popular-names-for-girls-s-1443501909

[jsanders2001]

> The study might really be “on” to something though. Names really are cyclical

There is power in the names that are given to individuals. I’ve noticed certain names are more predisposed towards criminal behavior while others are not in my 20 + years of doing thousands of background checks. One example us that I’ve noticed that a larger percentage of people with the middle name of Ray commit criminal acts for some reason and that persons that have Jr, III, or IV attached to their names are more apt to commit fraud or financal crimes for some reason. There’s probably more examples if I were to sit down and think about it.

[AceMineral]

Mineral Niece, who has an african American mother, is named Noelle Anastasia.

[Verginius Rufus]

I had a great-uncle (white) whose name was Clarence, although he went by his middle name, and used to know a white man named Clarence.

In the 19th century Biblical names were very common, then went out of fashion. The idea of a farmer being a "rube" probably arose from people thinking that Reuben was a typical farmer's name.

Louis Adamic, an immigrant from Slovenia, wrote a lot on immigrant-related topics. I read something by him where he talks about a man in Pennsylvania with a typical Polish name who couldn't get hired as a teacher despite being well qualified, until he changed his last name to Sullivan. That would have been probably in the 1920s or 1930s.