Is This True About Carribean Names?

[Louisville Slugz]

 

[Nabs]

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"My brothers name Lincoln, immediate family call him Steve, church and school call him Barry, friends call him Jay. Was 20yr old when I learnt his full name went to see I'm in hospital. Me and sis looking for Steve only to see our mom in a room with someone called Lincoln. I'm still blown away by this"

 

[Regular Developer]

Not quite as bad, but on the same path. My mom has been going by a certain name all her life. Sometimes I'll see her put her middle name, or sometimes my family will call her Aunty 'middle name'. I found out just after my 35th birthday, that her "middle name" is her first name and the name she normally goes by is her middle name.
- Trinidad

 

[UncleTomFord15]

Ya most people in my family have two names. People call them by their nicknames so much that people forget their real name.

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

Can’t relate

 

[GoPinheiro]

Can’t relate

How? Isn't his birth name Marcus Sanders?

 

[Belize King]

My Dads name in Belize and LA is Rax. Unless you went to school with him, you only knew him as Rax.

Half my extended family don’t know my first name.

 

[Eternally Jaded]

Yeah this is true.

Uncle named Richard everyone calls him Bobba.

You call him Richard/Rich/Richie he's not gonna know you're talking to him.

Same thing with my father. I go back to his island and say I'm Lyal's son, they're gonna be like

But if I say I'm Slejdah's boy they're

Weird cultural thing.

Tbh I think it comes from the Irish/Scottish melding of the past.

 

[RickyDiBiase]

that's kinda cool, I got a basic first name

 

[Koli_Kat]

Yep. My dad's name was completely different from what they called him in Jamaica and family functions.

 

[Address_Unknown]

True to some extent. You liable to get a nickname or something and hold onto that rather than know a person's actual name. Even if you do learn it, short of a formal situation, you just rock with the alternative, similar to what Hindu guyanese folk do with their actual name and their 'english' versions.

Lots of older folks do this, though. My Gramp's first name, I didn't find out until I was looking through his goddamned funeral booklet.
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[010101]

family nickname

street nickname

drinking nickname..........

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[Doobie Doo]

How? Isn't his birth name Marcus Sanders?

That's his slave name

 

[MajesticLion]

We're not "nikkas" either.

 

[ThrobbingHood]

When I found out my Jamaican barber’s real name was Errol, I couldn’t look at him the same way anymore.

A sad remnant of the British empire.