You Named Your Baby What?!

June 25th, 2010 - By madamenoire

While in South Africa last week to headline the World Cup Kick-Off Concert in Johannesburg, Alicia Keys and fiance Swizz Beatz (can I just call him Kasseem Dean?) had their unborn child blessed in a “traditional” Zulu ceremony near Durban, on the country’s eastern coast.

Wearing tribal beads, Alicia and the baby were given Zulu names, a blessing in return for her work with local children’s charity Bobbi Bear. The names were kept private, but it’s said they were chosen to reflect Alicia’s character. Though Alicia and Kaseem probably already have names picked out for their child, I’m sure the Zulu names gave them something to think about…

I named my daughter Sascha (she was born in January 2006) to reflect a sassy attitude I somehow knew she was going to need. I was also randomly drawn to names that ended in the letter “a”.

The name first struck me while flipping through a newspaper and I saw comedian Jerry Seinfeld and his daughter, yep, Sascha. Then the name wouldn’t stop coming at me: I remembered that relatively unknown candidate for US Senate who spoke so eloquently at the 2004 Democratic National Convention had a daughter named Sasha, and actress Vanessa Williams daughter with former Los Angeles Laker Rick Fox was also a Sasha.

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    I had my first child @26. I had a list of names but when I found out it was a boy i settled on Ejih(e-jye). I made it up. I wanted him to have a name never heard of before. My daughter came 2 yrs later and her name is Ejani(a-ja-nye). Saw a woman in a magazine who named her son Eja(asia) I liked it and it was close to my sons name. And their birthdays are 4 days apart. Siblings that are not twin can't get no closer:)

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  • Ayman

    This is an important question.

    I'm 22 and i already thought about it 5 years ago.

    I wanna give to my children and especially my daughters others names that my family are expected from me.

    I'm " genetically only" arab. I ' m a Muslim that's my only nationality.

    So all arab-muslims gives "arab" names to their children same if they are non praticant drinkin'………. This is a big shame if you gives others names, this is hypocrisy! This is not forbidden by Islam. I' m a praticant muslim and i wanna named my future girls:

    Miley,Hayden,Haley(my fav one),Malia,Sacha,Ashley,Jessica or Selena. My boys i don' t know Barack or Barack Hussein or one Barack and another Obama, Malcolm(is a muslim name to me)Micheal and Jackson.

    But i don't wanna disrespect the people who inspired me these names that's why i don't wanna named them Muhammad or Abdul or Issa(Jesus)or Paul…… Cause these are holy names.

    For the girls i'm just fed up with arabic names .

    When my children will grew up and if they choose Islam they could change their names if they want to a holy name.

  • Qiana

    My eldest daughter is Lauryn. I spelled it with a "y" instead of an "e" because of Lauryn Hill (with whom I was obsessed). My husband thinks (and I let him) her name came from his being Lawrence. Her middle name in my mother's first name–given in memoriam because she passed away when I was three months pregnant with Lauryn. I chose the name not so much for the meaning (laurel, like the leaves) more so because I was infatuated with the energy and style and artistic expression of Lauryn Hill.