Black Baby Names

African-American, black baby names are available from several resources that offer names searchable by origin. In addition, some of these resources provide the meaning of the name, if there is any.

You can also find these names (and meanings) from Baby Guide:

• African Baby Girl Names (with a list of 250 names)
• African American Baby Name Meanings (with a list of 248 names)

These books for African-America baby names include:

• The African-American Baby Name Book
  by Teresa Norman
• Proud Heritage : 11,001 Names for Your African-American Baby
  by Elza Dinwiddie-Boyd (Author)
• What to Name Your African American Baby
  by Benjamin Faulkner

Black Baby Names – Enlightenedsoftware.com & Parenthood.com

This site has an extensive, searchable baby names collection, located at enlightenedsoftware.com/babynames/index.html. The database contains over 50,000 names, including African-American names, and you can use several criteria to find the best ones.

However, there are several limitations to the database, and, for example, you cannot get a direct list of the names under specific origin or gender.

Parenthood.com offers (at parenthood.com/babynames.html) on online resource for finding African-American baby names. However, this source is very limited, but you’ll find meanings as well.


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