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[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

Let me preface this with the family is from Sierra Leon. These names may be utterly common in Sierra Leon...in Dallas, they caught my attention -

Dad: Mustapha
Mom: Fanta
Son: Daddy

It was the Daddy that caught my eye...then all I could see was Fanta soda and Mustapha from the Lion King....

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[vanish.livejournal.com]

...Daddy? Hm.

[piperwest12.livejournal.com]

Except for Daddy, those are pretty common amongst the African population. I work in an area with a high African population. What I have noticed is that some take terms of endearments and use them as first names to honor that person.

[so-there.livejournal.com]

I know some immigrants come here and wanting to give their kids common american names, listen around and name their kid whatever they hear people calling other people the most. I don't know that this could really apply here.. I'd think they'd figure out what "Daddy" meant.

[desert-sailor.livejournal.com]

Interesting names...although in the Lion King is was Mufasa. :)

[requiem-morrow.livejournal.com]

LOL My childhood memories are tainted by old age!

[desert-sailor.livejournal.com]

lol If that's a childhood memory you can't be much older than me and I refuse to be old. :P

[countessof-roth.livejournal.com]

I know a Mustafa, he's caucasian and from Kosovo.... We all just call him "Moose" :)

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

I have probably mentioned this here at some point before, but... In high school, my friend had a girl in her class who was from Africa, and her name translated to "Chinese Girl" and that was what she went by. Most people just called here Chinese.

[hermione-vader.livejournal.com]

Simba's dad is Mufasa, not Mustapha, but the Genie does call Aladdian a "Doubting Mustapha" in Aladdin. Daddy is rather odd, though. What's he going to call his dad now?