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Given that it's the Fourth of July, America's Independence Day, and I see we're discussing uniquely British names below (or at least, names that are more strongly associated with Britain than anywhere else), I thought perhaps we could discuss uniquely American names as well.

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Which frankly begs the question, Are there any uniquely American names? I would argue that there are. For example, Dakota and Cheyenne, being of Native American origin. There are also many, many, many variants of black American names, as that is a subculture which encourages and rewards creativity above meaning when choosing names (and I am by no means sayin that's a bad thing); for example, Shaniqua and Keshaun. Surely these are uniquely American.

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Then there's the infamous Nevaeh, which, like it or lump it, was kre8tymhed in the good ol US of A. And Qiana, which was actually created by some guys at DuPont Chemical, of all things.

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But surely our friends around the world must have opinions as to which names seem most strongly associated with America. Clint? Condoleezza? Bubba? What do y'all think?

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Just to round up - so far...

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Dakota
Cheyenne
Shaniqua, et al
Keshaun, et al
Nevaeh
Qiana
Clint (?)
Condoleezza (? perhaps in the same category with Shaniqua? or not, given its ultimately Italian origin?)

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Who can think of more?