text: some of those names that you mentioned....have meaning. Imani means faith....and Ebony means black. i have an Afrocentric name....and really a lot of African Americans are now researching and looking for names to give their children that they themselves were denied b/c of assimilation...\n\nwe really were not meant to have euro centric names so we began to create pseudo African names just so that we(blacks) could have a separate identity...since everything else was pretty much stripped away from us.\n\nthere are African American baby naming books that are out now and you won't see the typical Christopher or Catherine...you may see names like Malik and Aeysha...their meanings and origins are also listed.\n\nbtw...my names means the 'beautiful one' and it is origin is Swahili and the region is Ethiopian.