Edit: I’m specifically referring to Black people in the Anglophone Caribbean.
When the story broke about Sherrone Moore, the former U of Michigan football coach, I was shocked to find out that he was of Trinidadian descent and not African-American.
Based on his first name, he sounds very much like a typical African-American name. So, do Caribbean people give their children names like this? Or is it possible that, growing up in the United States and possibly among African-Americans, that his parents were influenced in that naming choice?
I also think of another man of Trinidad descent, Malik Taylor, a.k.a. Phife Dawg. RIP. Again, Malik is a name that I would very much associate with African-Americans. Jamal is another one. I believe both of these names are of Arabic lineage. Phife was born and raised in New York City. Again, it’s possible that his parents were influenced with their naming choice.
Or are these names also found in the Caribbean?