Origin of Black Names

[KamikazePilot]

My name is African origin obviously

 

[IllmaticDelta]

might be because.. and i kid you not.. but many of them irish /english names meant black or dark.. maybe it created an appeal

Donovan Strong Fighter; one who is dark brown natured
Dunn One who has dark complexion
Duwayne One who is dark brown colored
Dwayne A melodious song; dark or black
Dwane One who is dark or black
Kieran The name means Dark Man

even non-irsh
Maurice French name describing something dark
Merick A dark skinned person, a swarthy, a moor

interesting

 

[Rozay Oro]

I like these concise videos. Latin(roman) and Greek names were and are still pretty popular too. Games like Demetrius, aries, Evander, julius, Maia, Nona, venus, etc.

It's amazing how many people see those kind of names as 'Black names' despite the fact they're literally thousands of years old

when I found out Tyrone was irish

Or Jerome

..just like when I found out jamal was arabic/muslim

they sound naturally elegant too

 

[Jemmy]

There is also a wealth of information that I don't have access to at the moment linking names like Kiesha and stuff to Kongo @Diasporan Royalty @IllmaticDelta @DrBanneker @Supper prob know what I'm talking about more than I do. maybe @The Odum of Ala Igbo has seen something also like what I am talking about

There is another motherland connection with nicknaming, Tiny for big people, Kinky, Bo, Black, Red etc have deep, some ancient ties.

I don't like these vids because they really leave/start a lot of this stuff at the enslavement era/Maafa/Mmuso Kese which is not the whole truestory but no diaspora war ITT please

but for constructive info!

Read somewhere that early on some AA’s of Kongo background held onto their names early on. It makes sense cause a lot of our ancestors came from that area.

 

[Illuminatos]

I remember some older white dude in one of my classes named Jamal.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Read somewhere that early on some AA’s of Kongo background held onto their names early on. It makes sense cause a lot of our ancestors came from that area.

most of the known afram surnames that can be traced directly back to africa are ghanaian and angolan. Many of the angolan ones got even passed onto white americans from light skinned blacks who were roaming around Virginia and the Carolinas all the way back in the 1600s

 

[Jemmy]

most of the known afram surnames that can be traced directly back to africa are ghanaian and angolan. Many of the angolan ones got even passed onto white americans from light skinned blacks who were roaming around Virginia and the Carolinas all the way back in the 1600s

I’m thinkin this will eventually happen with “Shabazz” if it already hasn’t happened yet.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

I’m thinkin this will eventually happen with “Shabazz” if it already hasn’t happened yet.

something interesting I ran across...whites and latino using shabazz

What Does The Name Shabazz Mean?

Irish

Hilarious. A pale ginger Irishman is basically the opposite of what you expect a 'Tyrone' to look like

tyrone is a more frequent name with white americans than it is with aframs

What Does The Name Tyrone Mean?

 

[Pit Bull]

People think African American names is just some made up bullshyt that come from the crack era but some of these names I think tie us back to Africa.

Like the name Jamar people would either think that's some ghetto freaknik crack era name from the 80s or we stole it from Arabs out of self hate or some Farrakhan shyt but one of my grandmother's siblings name was Jamar spelled as Jammor and this was in the 20s. It's most likely linked to our ancestors being Muslim in Africa. We held on to more shyt than people think.

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

My names Irish.


Matter fact my great great grandfather was an irish immigrant. i got red hairs in my beard n shyt smh

 

[broller]

most of the known afram surnames that can be traced directly back to africa are ghanaian and angolan. Many of the angolan ones got even passed onto white americans from light skinned blacks who were roaming around Virginia and the Carolinas all the way back in the 1600s

Which Ghanaian and Angolan surnames are those?

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Which Ghanaian

2 of the more known ones are

Kofi to Cufee

Cuffee clan gathers to remember a remarkable man

Cuffee

The CUFFEE surname in America | Ethnic Distribution | American Surnames

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The Quander family is believed to be the oldest documented African American family that has come from African ancestry to present day America. Historians believe so because they cannot find any records of any other African American family whose ancestry has been consistently kept and published. Their origins began in Ghana, Africa to which now the majority resides in either Maryland or Virginia/Washington DC[1] and more recently parts of Pennsylvania.[2]

The Quanders originated from the Fanti tribe in Ghana, West Africa. A man by the name of Egya Amkwandoh was kidnapped during the African slave trade and transported to the United States.[1][a] According to official slave records, when slave owners asked for his name, and he answered “Amkwandoh,” it translated to them as “I am Quando.’ The next few generations of Quanders went by the name Quando rather than Quander.[4] Other variations used include Quandoe and Kwando. The name became recognized as the present day pronunciation “Quander” during the 19th century. Egya Amkwandoh had two sons, who were both taken away from him and split up. One was sent to Maryland and the other sent to Virginia. The first known records of the “Quando” family existing as free people descent from the Maryland side, specifically the family member Henry Quando. A slave owner by the name of Henry Adams from Portobacco, Charles County, Maryland, included the freedom of the Maryland Quandos in his will on October 13, 1684. The Quandos who reside in Virginia are the ones in direct relation to George Washington, as well as the ones who remained in slavery up until the death of Martha Washington.[1]

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The QUANDER surname in America | American Surnames

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and Angolan surnames are those?

mosinga or muzinga to monzingo

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Edward Mozingo

Wondering about his mysterious family name

"I always had kind of a longing to understand the history of the place I lived in, and I think that kind of came from the fact that I had no family history that I knew of. ... Then when people started asking me my name ... I kept wondering, how is it that we don't actually know where this name came from?"

Discovering Edward Mozingo, the ancestor who gave the family its name

"I met a professor, who was Sherrie Mazingo, and she was black, and she had done a lot more research than I had on our genealogy, and had been to a family reunion in North Carolina. [She] came back with the news that the name was African, and that we all descended from the same person, and he was, in her words, a 'Bantu warrior.' My uncle, out of nowhere, said we did in fact come from Virginia, where this slave had landed."

"There was the period in Virginia, that I had never known about, where free blacks and poor whites were mixing and even getting married."

Edward Mozingo's arrival in the new world

"We think he landed when he was about 11 years old, near Jamestown, and basically when these Africans arrived, you know they figured they wouldn't live more than a couple of years — there was no reason to have a lifelong slave — so they treated them as indentured servants.

"Edward appears to have had a contract with his master to work a certain amount of time."

On visiting a white Virginia cousin who denied the story

"[Junior Mozingo] didn't want to hear about it at all. He had lived literally on the spot where Edward Mozingo had lived 300 years before, yet, he had this myth that they were Italian and they had gotten here in the 1800s — when, in fact, you could trace his linage straight to Edward. Edward was his seventh great-grandfather.

"My initial intention was to go there and make people's heads explode with the news that they were black, even though they weren't. But, you know, someone invites you into their house, and they are very nice, and you realize that this guy lived a very hard life."

A White Face With A Forgotten African Family

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Cambo (possibly derived from Kambol, a royal name of Ndongo) to Cumbo

Tim Hashaw in his book “The Birth of Black America: The First African Americans and the Pursuit of Freedom at Jamestown” makes reference to the origins of Emanuell Cambow and his Cumbo descendants.

In the book he writes the following in reference to the origins of Emanuell Cambow and his Cumbo descendants in Colonial America:

The African Cumbo family first appeared in Jamestown documents in September 1644 and they, too, survived and traveled far from the colony over many generations. That year, the Virginia House of Burgesses ruled Manuel Cambow was a Christian Servant and ordered that he was to serve as other Christians in indenture. He was freed in September 1665 and, two years later, was granted fifty acres in James City County, near the free black Mihill Gowen, son of John Graweere and Margaret Cornish. In the papers that recorded the land patent, Cambow was described as a Negro. Several clues indicate that Manuel Cambow was a Bantu from Angola. First, Cambo (possibly derived from Kambol, a royal name of Ndongo) was an African with a Christian Portuguese name who appeared in Jamestown between 1619 and 1650, when West India Company records show that virtually all of the three hundred or so Africans in Jamestown were being brought to the colony by Protestant pirates raiding Portuguese and Spanish slave ships sailing from Luanda, Angola. Second a few generations later, to escape laws restricting rights of black Americans, Manuel Cambow’s descendants were telling census takers that they were Portuguese. Third his descendants merged quickly and easily into the Angolan malangu communities in Jamestown and married into the free families of Collinses, Driggers, Gowens, Hammonds, and Matthews.

The Origins of Emanuell Cambow

According to historians, the first documented Cumbo in the New World was Emanuell Cambow, an African who arrived in Jamestown, VA sometime in the 1600s. He first appears in Jamestown documents in September 1644 when he is made an indentured servant by the Virginia Assembly. He was freed from indentured servitude in 1665, granted 50 acres of land in James City County on April 18 1667 and started a family. Many Cumbo descendants in America today trace their ancestry back to Emanuell. With this said, note that Cumbo was also a fairly common name among enslaved persons in colonial Virginia.



Emanuell Cambow’s descendants lived on as free people of color and intermarried with African, European and Native Americans from Virginia and coastal North Carolina areas through the colonial period of America. As a result, over successive generations, many Cumbo family branches either maintained black or mixed-race (mulatto) identities, passed as white (Melungeon or Portuguese) or fully embraced Native American (Lumbee or Tuscarora) identities. Cumbo descendants today self-identify across all of these racial groups. Additionally, as the Cumbo family grew, so did variations of the name which expanded to Cumba, Cumbee, Cumby, Cumbia, Cumboe, Cumbow, Combo, Cumber and others.

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[broller]

2 of the more known ones are

Kofi to Cufee

Cuffee clan gathers to remember a remarkable man

Cuffee

The CUFFEE surname in America | Ethnic Distribution | American Surnames

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another

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The QUANDER surname in America | American Surnames

What Does The Name Quander Mean?

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mosinga or muzinga to monzingo

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Edward Mozingo



A White Face With A Forgotten African Family

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Cambo (possibly derived from Kambol, a royal name of Ndongo) to Cumbo



The Origins of Emanuell Cambow



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that's remarkable

 

[Samori Toure]

There is also a wealth of information that I don't have access to at the moment linking names like Kiesha and stuff to Kongo @Diasporan Royalty @IllmaticDelta @DrBanneker @Supper prob know what I'm talking about more than I do. maybe @The Odum of Ala Igbo has seen something also like what I am talking about

There is another motherland connection with nicknaming, Tiny for big people, Kinky, Bo, Black, Red etc have deep, some ancient ties.

I don't like these vids because they really leave/start a lot of this stuff at the enslavement era/Maafa/Mmuso Kese which is not the whole truestory but no diaspora war ITT please

but for constructive info!

A name like Keisha, Kadesia, Malik, Fatima, Filli (Phyllis), Balil (Bailey), Musa (Moses) etc., are probably Muslim names that came with the slaves from the Sahel. Some last names in America come from the same place like Muhamad, Saba and Salaam (Salem). A person named Yusuf Ben Ali was renamed Joseph BenHaley.

African Muslims in Early America
What Happened to America's First Muslims? | HuffPost

 

[Jemmy]

2 of the more known ones are

Kofi to Cufee

Cuffee clan gathers to remember a remarkable man

Cuffee

The CUFFEE surname in America | Ethnic Distribution | American Surnames

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another

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The QUANDER surname in America | American Surnames

What Does The Name Quander Mean?

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mosinga or muzinga to monzingo

Los Angeles Times - We are currently unavailable in your region

Edward Mozingo



A White Face With A Forgotten African Family

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and

Cambo (possibly derived from Kambol, a royal name of Ndongo) to Cumbo



The Origins of Emanuell Cambow



Family Tree DNA - Genetic Testing for Ancestry, Family History & Genealogy

I’m starting to think “Goins” may be of Angola/Kongo origin too.