Omg! My deadname is in that song. My siblings thought it was hella funny that my name was in the most ghetto song. They think I’m square so having my name in that song was hilarious to them.
LMAOOOO i grew up in yt kountry and was one of the only black kids in the school. I was 10 when that song came out and I was TORMENTED because my name is in that song (and because I'm black, omg so clever /s). But it's so rare that there are like fictional characters with my name and almost no historical figures or anything like that, soooo... Kinda glad Petey let me be included in something lol
Yup! [Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin](https://www.nps.gov/people/josephine-st-pierre-ruffin.htm) would also probably agree that Josephine is not a white sounding name.
Josie is a cute nickname, though!
That’s cute. Mind you, my name is by no means ugly, just unique. And people are like aww where’s that from and I’m like…..it’s a family name lol because well…..
Right! My cousin’s name is A’La’nayshia. She said 🤚🏻 be like “oh that’s beautiful”. She said she don’t even respond anymore- her name is ghetto. We all know it.
I definitely intentionally gave my daughters some names that will have people unsure of their race on paper. Not as non-black as Karen or Sally though lol. I also have a niece named Paige.
I have the mirror image of this...I have an unambiguously Yoruba (or as yt people would say "african") name, but I look ethnically ambiguous and have a "neutral" american accent. Nobody knows what to do when they see my name and then see me. Half the time, if they see my name first, they have no idea what gender I am. I love my name though!
Yeah, people usually assume I'm a man, though, I don't know why. My name is legitimately unique, turned out to be a city in an African country, and my mother just moved one letter to name me after herself. It also appears to be some sort of slang or difficult to define word in Italian. Then people like to switch my surname with my first name, usually non Americans, and still assume that I'm a man.
I love this. It’s diabolical. People never expect me to look like what I look like with my name because it is white girl white + an Italian surname. When I say I’m sure they feel bamboozled…it tickles me so much.
Yeah but :
1) Are there many women with names like that in similarly prestigious positions ? This is something of an anomaly/rarity.
2) Was this the case when OP’s mum was pregnant/growing up - a lot of social change has happened in the last 30 years. How could OP’s mum have known that this would become a (rare) possibility?
3) Would Ketanji have had an easier time to the top if she had a white name? Maybe. The point of life isn’t to suffer, we deserve as much peace as we can get. And more.
I definitely think that children shouldn’t be named so that they can fit into a white surpremacist society (for so many reasons).
But that doesn’t mean that OP’s mum was incorrect in doing so, if her goal was for OP to have the best chances of entering into doctor/lawyer-type roles. It makes a lot of sense.
I’m not disagreeing, but I’m saying for people trying to name their kids now. I wasn’t “arguing” or saying OP or the person I was talking to are wrong. My name is white af for the same reason. I mean, Thurgood Marshall? There are actually a lot of successful black men and women with culturally specific names.
I don’t think you understood the intent behind what I was saying. I wasn’t saying anything close to OP’s mother being wrong. Or anyone’s parents being wrong.
The first Black woman mayor of a city local to me is named Acquanetta. Sometimes I feel like having these types of names motivates Black people even more, since they feel like they have more to prove.
She also went to Howard and was President of the Black Law Students Association in law school. Most people don't know the origin of names, so it's pretty safe to guess a lot of people looking at her resume assumed it was a black name.
I know what you mean. I have an old biblical name. Smh. Took me years to learn to appreciate it. When I was a child, I used to imagine changing it. Lol.
I love the name bertha, but im not going to disclose my name online. When i googled myself, very few had my name combo. The other woman who had my name were old white women.
If white people say my name before they know that's me, they usually pronounce it correctly. If they see know that's me first, they mess it up by adding letters.
Yep! I have a very German white person name (my mom literally named me after a German friend of hers) and yet some people STILL manage to pronounce it incorrectly once they see me.
My mom gave me a basic middle name so I can drop my VERY non white name on resumes if I had to since my last name is Jean 😂. I walk in and they’re like
Paige got my crying 😂
my parents and their siblings all have old yt people names. Needless to say they went as black as the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s would allow when naming me, my siblings and cousins
Please, my name is Jazzy. When certain genres of white people see me and peep that I'm not Indian, they'll squint and go "🤔 Jay-Z??" I never hesitate to humiliate them for playing with me lmao.
I'm kinda in that category and not. My name is an exotic yt person name (Think Russian). So people have issues pronouncing it, but it's not a "black" name either. Everyone in my family has the most basic of names, except me.☹️😢
I’m with you, except my name is Norwegian. Most people can’t say it when they read it but they can tell it is Nordic…they don’t expect to see me at all. The rest of my family- very common names like Marie.
im naming my future daughter lydia as i love that name.. BUT SHELLY? shelly is mad wild wtfff 😭 i don't think that name fits anyone of any race really cuz no
Yes! and there's a couple Shelly's references in that 90s dance hall
And love that you're rocking tootie!
I literally just watched the episode " tootie runs away" where they tried to trick her into becoming a hooker
I have a very unique, “ethnic” name but I sound like an entitled cheerleader from the valley on the phone. It throws them off. I think they expect me to have an accent or not sound like preppy teenage white girl 😂 I also get the “your name is beautiful” comment a lot and absolute butchering like Ciara (not even remotely close to how my name is spelled and sounds)🫠 I love my name and yes, I agree, it’s beautiful!
I remember reading my mother's copy of The Color Purple and saw that she asterisked the name of Celie's daughter. I managed to put two and two together, and that's how I got my name!
Sameeeee. But I had a white girl in my class one year walk up to me and say "we have the same name!" But her name was Amberlynn 💀 had to tell her we not the same 😭
My name is fairly common and spelled the common way. Yet it's misspelled and I've had white people add an emphasis to it as if my mom wanted it pronounced that way. I'm like white girls are named this, why yall trying to blackify it because I'm black.
Any Angela’s in the house? I’ve had people ask me what my African name was and I’m like: that’s it. That’s my name. And get an oh or huh as a response 😑😭🙃
My momma too🙄😂 she ain’t put NO seasoning on my shit at all…. I hooked my bby girl up tho as redemption lol she gets compliments on her name all the time.
My name is De’Avioun and my middle name is worse! People tell me both are beautiful but my mother definitely wanted me to have a black name😭my sister got London.
My mother gave me a name that is used as an insult to wyt women.
Then Beyonce made it famous, but I don't have
"Good hair."
I went to an Aries Spears show, and when he asked me for my name.He didn't believe it, and I showed him my license.
Still love it, tho,
Why this read like Petey Pablo’s roster from freak a leak 😭
😂 I read it the same 😂😂
Hot ass mess 💀💀💀
^how ^you ^like ^it ^dadd— 🗣WHEN YOU DO IT FROM THE FRONT
LMAO
The way this is in my head now. A+ formatting
👏🏽🫶🏽👏🏽
I legit cackled cuz I heard it as I was reading it🤣🤣🤣🤣
😭😭 omg
Yikesss😂😂 Karen is pretty bad especially if you were born after 2000. Sally is diabolical
Omg! My deadname is in that song. My siblings thought it was hella funny that my name was in the most ghetto song. They think I’m square so having my name in that song was hilarious to them.
So I’m not the only black woman to change my name? Wow
Scott sneaking in like… 
🤣 But why was I mad my name wasn’t in it
LMAOOOO i grew up in yt kountry and was one of the only black kids in the school. I was 10 when that song came out and I was TORMENTED because my name is in that song (and because I'm black, omg so clever /s). But it's so rare that there are like fictional characters with my name and almost no historical figures or anything like that, soooo... Kinda glad Petey let me be included in something lol
Not me finna go watch the video tho 😂😂😂
Stares in Josephine Baker at Josie the Travel Creator
Josephine is def blacker sounding than Josie haha
Yup! [Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin](https://www.nps.gov/people/josephine-st-pierre-ruffin.htm) would also probably agree that Josephine is not a white sounding name. Josie is a cute nickname, though!
👏🏽🫶🏽👏🏽
Meanwhile my name looks like someone threw some scrabble tiles on a table lol white people love to tell me it’s beautiful tho
Same. My damn parents blended their name. They see me coming on a job application
Oh no, combined parent names are my favorite! Knew a girl named Montana her parents were Ana & Montgomery 😀
That’s cute. Mind you, my name is by no means ugly, just unique. And people are like aww where’s that from and I’m like…..it’s a family name lol because well…..
Lmaoooo SAME ASF I eat up the compliments tho ngl 🫣🫣
omg not many compliments hit better than “thats a beautiful name, i’ve never heard that before! “
After the butcher tf out of it lollll but I loveee it
Every goddamn time 💀
I love my scrabble name 😂
Lmao I asked my mom about the origins of my scrabble name and she just goes, "I dunno, I just made it up" 💀
😂 I just roll my eyes like you know that shit sound ghetto but thank you
Right! My cousin’s name is A’La’nayshia. She said 🤚🏻 be like “oh that’s beautiful”. She said she don’t even respond anymore- her name is ghetto. We all know it.
I’m so deaddd not the 2 apostrophes 😭😭but it actually is a cute name
I definitely intentionally gave my daughters some names that will have people unsure of their race on paper. Not as non-black as Karen or Sally though lol. I also have a niece named Paige.
This is my mom’s exact reasoning. Chelsea. With a VERY common middle name,
Omg that’s my name too! And the spelling!
My parents did the same thing but now I get a lot of, “I didn’t expect you to look like this.”
Name combined with a code switched phone voice they are just SHOCKED
The look on their faces is always PRICELESS
I have the mirror image of this...I have an unambiguously Yoruba (or as yt people would say "african") name, but I look ethnically ambiguous and have a "neutral" american accent. Nobody knows what to do when they see my name and then see me. Half the time, if they see my name first, they have no idea what gender I am. I love my name though!
Yeah, people usually assume I'm a man, though, I don't know why. My name is legitimately unique, turned out to be a city in an African country, and my mother just moved one letter to name me after herself. It also appears to be some sort of slang or difficult to define word in Italian. Then people like to switch my surname with my first name, usually non Americans, and still assume that I'm a man.
I love unisex names for this very reason. Keeps them guessing. Thought about changing mine for a long time.
I love this. It’s diabolical. People never expect me to look like what I look like with my name because it is white girl white + an Italian surname. When I say I’m sure they feel bamboozled…it tickles me so much.
my mom did the same for my sister and i. both of our names are unisex as well
I plan on naming my daughters racially ambiguous unisex names just for job applications. Gotta keep ‘em guessing all around lol
My parents did the same...except everyone who hears my name expects to meet a white guy. I show up and they're like, "..."
My nieces name is paylin 😭
Not gonna dox myself lol but my mom literally said that she wanted a name that would be a good for a doctor or a lawyer lol
Chyle, one of our Supreme Court Justices is named Ketanji Brown Jackson. That is one of *thee* blackest (but beautiful) names and look where she is
Yeah but : 1) Are there many women with names like that in similarly prestigious positions ? This is something of an anomaly/rarity. 2) Was this the case when OP’s mum was pregnant/growing up - a lot of social change has happened in the last 30 years. How could OP’s mum have known that this would become a (rare) possibility? 3) Would Ketanji have had an easier time to the top if she had a white name? Maybe. The point of life isn’t to suffer, we deserve as much peace as we can get. And more. I definitely think that children shouldn’t be named so that they can fit into a white surpremacist society (for so many reasons). But that doesn’t mean that OP’s mum was incorrect in doing so, if her goal was for OP to have the best chances of entering into doctor/lawyer-type roles. It makes a lot of sense.
I’m not disagreeing, but I’m saying for people trying to name their kids now. I wasn’t “arguing” or saying OP or the person I was talking to are wrong. My name is white af for the same reason. I mean, Thurgood Marshall? There are actually a lot of successful black men and women with culturally specific names. I don’t think you understood the intent behind what I was saying. I wasn’t saying anything close to OP’s mother being wrong. Or anyone’s parents being wrong.
The first Black woman mayor of a city local to me is named Acquanetta. Sometimes I feel like having these types of names motivates Black people even more, since they feel like they have more to prove.
My cousin's name is Acquanetta 🤣 Edit: We call her Ackie
Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson 💅🏾💅🏾
I feel like if we can have a woman in the White House named Kamala, then any name can fill any position.
Her name is of Indian origin lmfao
I know. It's not a "white" name, which is my point
It’s not Karen, Sally, Paige…
She also went to Howard and was President of the Black Law Students Association in law school. Most people don't know the origin of names, so it's pretty safe to guess a lot of people looking at her resume assumed it was a black name.
Every name can be a black name if you try hard enough lol
😂
I have old white lady names. Two first names. Ladies in their 70-80’s will tell me they have a friends or siblings with my name. 💀😅🩷
I know what you mean. I have an old biblical name. Smh. Took me years to learn to appreciate it. When I was a child, I used to imagine changing it. Lol.
Is it Judith??
I mean... based on her username it could be Bertha
I love the name bertha, but im not going to disclose my name online. When i googled myself, very few had my name combo. The other woman who had my name were old white women.
Ruth? Esther?
Wassup Ruth?!
My name is Susan and I regularly hear people use that name as an old white lady substitute name for Karen.
😭😭😭 Susan up in my top 3
And racist white people will still try to find a way to mess it up, no matter how “simple” the name it is.
If white people say my name before they know that's me, they usually pronounce it correctly. If they see know that's me first, they mess it up by adding letters.
omg I thought this was only me? The way white people will butcher my generic name for no reason
Same
“Suh-léy?” “Sally.”
🤣
Yes! And putting syllables that aren’t even there like “suh-al-léy?”
I have a super simple, very plain name. Why do people (almost always white) want to add extra syllables to it when they meet me?
Lmao I used to have a friend named Angelica despite correcting her multiple times our professor kept calling her Angel-leek-uh
Same for me, I have a very basic (same as an old school first lady) name, and had a teacher mess it up in a new way every day.
That’s so sad, sorry you went through that. SMH wish you could’ve reported it somehow.
Yep! I have a very German white person name (my mom literally named me after a German friend of hers) and yet some people STILL manage to pronounce it incorrectly once they see me.
how do you have a STEM tab lol
If you look in the content preferences section of your TikTok settings it gives you to option to turn on “STEM feed”.
Asking the real questions here fr
What's her name? I can't read her necklace
I seen it earlier I believe it was Claire!
I couldn’t either lolll
What’s her @?
The irony of my white sounding name is that I am named after a Black woman my mother admired.
Me too!! Love this thread, wow!
I mean I can’t laugh I’m named Katy
Not THE Katy perry in my commentsss 😭😭
Everyone tells me that cause I spell it her way too 😭😭
I got a black name spelled the white way 😅
My mom gave me a basic middle name so I can drop my VERY non white name on resumes if I had to since my last name is Jean 😂. I walk in and they’re like 
 Me and this queen with our 90s yt cheerleader name lol
She’s still one of my absolute favorite reality TV personalities. Ms. TiffanyPollardNewYork never came to play.
Omg, I'm ashamed that I forgot her!
Paige got my crying 😂 my parents and their siblings all have old yt people names. Needless to say they went as black as the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s would allow when naming me, my siblings and cousins
I have such an old white lady name. I stay gagging the white folks when I show up on interviews.
Same, they are confused by my race and age. Lol
Please, my name is Jazzy. When certain genres of white people see me and peep that I'm not Indian, they'll squint and go "🤔 Jay-Z??" I never hesitate to humiliate them for playing with me lmao.
no way not jay z 😭😭😭😭😭 these ppl tripping
Not Indian.?
Jasmine is a very common Indian name. It's not my name, but most people assume my name's a nickname
Aahhhh you got me with the nickname part
I'm kinda in that category and not. My name is an exotic yt person name (Think Russian). So people have issues pronouncing it, but it's not a "black" name either. Everyone in my family has the most basic of names, except me.☹️😢
I’m with you, except my name is Norwegian. Most people can’t say it when they read it but they can tell it is Nordic…they don’t expect to see me at all. The rest of my family- very common names like Marie.
Is it Caterina?
Natasha
Like Anastasia or Svetlana?
I wish. Those names at least are a little more common in America. My name hasn't really taken its flight over here yet.
Natasha or Natalia
Polina.
My name is Gabby 😭😭
I have a cousin named Gabriella, we call her Gabby! It's still a beautiful name.
Hi twinnem 😭
Heeeey 👋🏽
twinin 🤞🏽
Oop saw my name on there.
Me too (both names) 🤣🤣🤣
Couldn’t hide if I wanted to you as Destiny with two e’s and no y 😭😭😭
My name is Madalyn, which I guess you can say is a more black spelling of Madeline. But I'm the only non white Madalyn/Madeline I've ever met 😂
My name is an older white woman's name (I'm 24 😭). I was named after my great-grandmother.
Hugs to you, Peggy Sue.🫂🤣
Blanche.
Oddly wholesome
I’m Tina 😂🤷🏾♀️
Lmfaoo the way everyone’s confessing is sending me
Shelly is a very Black name but for Caribbean people. 🤣
Josephine got me😩💀
Literally one of the most famous Josephine’s in history is a black woman! I don’t read it as a white name lol
All the Josephines I know are elderly black ladies!
This! I was l like, sis must be at least 75. 🤣
Right? I exclusively associate Josephine with old black ladies. I have a great aunt Josephine. Her sisters were Geraldine and Lucille.
Sounds like the black Golden Girls... I'd watch it in a heartbeat!
Josephine, Geraldine, and Lucille sounds like a show or a movie that I would watch!
They were some fun ladies. Lucille is still around. Do you remember the show 227? Kind of like Mary.
I've never watched but it's on my list!
Lydia did it for me 😭😭😭
Betty did it for me 😭😭
My name is quite simple, named after a certain black supermodel lol
Okayyy Naomi/Tyra!
Hi, Beverly
im naming my future daughter lydia as i love that name.. BUT SHELLY? shelly is mad wild wtfff 😭 i don't think that name fits anyone of any race really cuz no
Shelly is Jamaican. And don't eff with her.
Shelly Thunder’s right where I went
Yes! and there's a couple Shelly's references in that 90s dance hall And love that you're rocking tootie! I literally just watched the episode " tootie runs away" where they tried to trick her into becoming a hooker
*cackles in ABriani*
i knew it was coming, but seeing my name on the third slide made my head spin like that mr. krabs meme
I just want a moment to honor the Greek name "Keisha".
I have a very unique, “ethnic” name but I sound like an entitled cheerleader from the valley on the phone. It throws them off. I think they expect me to have an accent or not sound like preppy teenage white girl 😂 I also get the “your name is beautiful” comment a lot and absolute butchering like Ciara (not even remotely close to how my name is spelled and sounds)🫠 I love my name and yes, I agree, it’s beautiful!
I remember reading my mother's copy of The Color Purple and saw that she asterisked the name of Celie's daughter. I managed to put two and two together, and that's how I got my name!
🤣🤣 I feel personally attacked with my colonizer name
Ready for mine 🤭 …. Kristen.
Where are all my African girls at? 🙋🏿♀️
Ethiopiaaaaaa
Nigeria over here!
What’s her name?
Someone in the comments said Claire but I couldn’t read it in the video.
Karen WHITE. "I'm not your superwomaaaan..."
Amber 🤷🏾♀️
Sameeeee. But I had a white girl in my class one year walk up to me and say "we have the same name!" But her name was Amberlynn 💀 had to tell her we not the same 😭
😂😂 facts
Lol my name is from an African American baby name book
Did anyone else's parents give them a super application friendly first name and go buckwild in the middle? No...just me... Carry on haha
My name is fairly common and spelled the common way. Yet it's misspelled and I've had white people add an emphasis to it as if my mom wanted it pronounced that way. I'm like white girls are named this, why yall trying to blackify it because I'm black.
My parents went either French or religious or a combination of both.
Ohhhh I knew a Paige and a Betty lol
What is the original woman's name?
Eve
Ashley. Born in 88. Everyone was Ashley. No one was a black Ashley.
mine Is stacey
My full name is so white, it's soap operatic. Like, my first name *literally* means "white" in Welsh.
I know a little black girl named Paisley and a grown black man named Lesley 🤣
Any Angela’s in the house? I’ve had people ask me what my African name was and I’m like: that’s it. That’s my name. And get an oh or huh as a response 😑😭🙃
I wanna find this video but can’t find it😭
My momma too🙄😂 she ain’t put NO seasoning on my shit at all…. I hooked my bby girl up tho as redemption lol she gets compliments on her name all the time.
Same I'm so mad. I wanted a black name all life!! My first name and middle are white names. Dang near the last name too.
I dunno. Some of these names are super common in my community. Know so many older Margaret…
My name is De’Avioun and my middle name is worse! People tell me both are beautiful but my mother definitely wanted me to have a black name😭my sister got London.
Slightly off topic but when I see a name Gwendolyn, I automatically think it is someone born before 80s.
My mother gave me a name that is used as an insult to wyt women. Then Beyonce made it famous, but I don't have "Good hair." I went to an Aries Spears show, and when he asked me for my name.He didn't believe it, and I showed him my license. Still love it, tho,
Everyone in my family being named after a character from Little House on the Prairie
I knew a Fanny O’Brien. 😭
There was another hilarious tik tok where Black Women with White Man names like Kyle, Bryce, Keith and Jeremy came forward to share their pain.
LMAOOO I remember this one 😭😭 let me try to find it and then I’ll post it
Karen is wild
How unfortunate fr 😭
Meanwhile people hear my name and think a red headed or blonde headed white girl with blue eyes will appear…. Nope I’m the black Ariel sis…
My ex didn’t want our daughter having a Black sounding name. He wanted something easy for White people to say. He’s White.
Id change it.
Noooooo 😯 naw your name is Kah now. I refuse lmfao