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You're right that Kylie is the only Australian Aboriginal name in common usage.

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Names like Latanya et al may be being called "Australian Aboriginal" because some parts of the Australian Aboriginal community identify strongly with African American sub-culture and use some of their names (I taught an Aboriginal Lekeesha, for example).

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I once had a book that had quite a few questionable "Aboriginal Australian" names, and Elanora was one of them. They are almost always place names rather than personal names:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elanora,_Queensland

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Here's a partial list of Aboriginal place names, on which you might find many of your book's suggestions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_place_names_of_Aboriginal_origin

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So... it seems that at some point some unknown baby name book writer scooped up a whole heap of assorted Australian Aboriginal place names, stuck some approximate meanings on them if they didn't already have one, and published them for all to copy.

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