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Help[Opinions] Re: African American Names
in reply to a message by RoxStar
It comes from local government data, which might not be compiled as quickly as national - and probably includes more than one year's worth, would be my guess.
I think it is accurate, but it's not distinguishing "how black" or "how white" etc the usages are. Lots of popular usages are used by multiple groups. I was looking for that NYC data recently, and the newest available includes births '12-'17. It was broken down by ethnicity, and almost every name that charted for any group, charted for them all. Except for a few that were highly ethnically specific to Hispanic, white and/or Jewish, and black groups - virtually all of which, I think most Americans could guess the ethnicity of easily. There were many that were "more black / more white / more Hispanic" than others but not generally by huge margins.
I agree that categorizing people by race/ethnicity in this way, is a little sketchy though - and probably can't tease out "African-American" names specifically, without someone assuming things based on some experience.
Of the 11 Isises born 2011-13 in NYC, 4 were characterized as black non-Hispanic and the rest as Hispanic.
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Health/Popular-Baby-Names/25th-nujf
Here's another thingy purporting to analyze the NYC data https://cdn.sisense.com/wp-content/uploads/What-Baby-Names-Tell-Us-About-Ethnic-and-Gender-Trends.pdf
- mirfak
I think it is accurate, but it's not distinguishing "how black" or "how white" etc the usages are. Lots of popular usages are used by multiple groups. I was looking for that NYC data recently, and the newest available includes births '12-'17. It was broken down by ethnicity, and almost every name that charted for any group, charted for them all. Except for a few that were highly ethnically specific to Hispanic, white and/or Jewish, and black groups - virtually all of which, I think most Americans could guess the ethnicity of easily. There were many that were "more black / more white / more Hispanic" than others but not generally by huge margins.
I agree that categorizing people by race/ethnicity in this way, is a little sketchy though - and probably can't tease out "African-American" names specifically, without someone assuming things based on some experience.
Of the 11 Isises born 2011-13 in NYC, 4 were characterized as black non-Hispanic and the rest as Hispanic.
https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Health/Popular-Baby-Names/25th-nujf
Here's another thingy purporting to analyze the NYC data https://cdn.sisense.com/wp-content/uploads/What-Baby-Names-Tell-Us-About-Ethnic-and-Gender-Trends.pdf
- mirfak
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