My students

[piperwest12.livejournal.com]

These are all 4 year olds
Girls:
A'jaye (I-Jay)
Adizatou
Milaysha (me-lie-sha)
Eliz (older sister is Gianna, a fave name of mine)
Beyonce ( I love the singer, but this is a truly ugly name and it's the second year in a row we get a Beyonce)
Fatoumata ( older siblings Salim (m) who was my student when Fatoumata was born and I held her as a newborn and watched her grow and learn to crawl and pull herself up and Mariam)
Elianna (Ellie-Ana)
Oumou (oo-moo)
Jennifer ( Brother named James,a los a former student)
Taniyah (ta-nie-ah)
Fanibel (fanny-belle)
Iqra (e-kra). She is a twin, her twin is Isha and their older sister is Ishma

Boys:
Rily ( yes spelled this way! Smh)
Manuel
Ousmane (oos-man)
Omar
Christopher
Bryant
Yahaya (ja-hi-yah)
Ivan

Comments

[sweetest-asylum.livejournal.com]

what part of the world...

[redfield79.livejournal.com]

This

[piperwest12.livejournal.com]

Bronx, NY. The majority of the students at my center have parents that have arrived in this country from Africa, Central and South America, in recent years.

[sweetest-asylum.livejournal.com]

ah. that kinda of explains it. hopefully some of them are cultural.

[smallandneedy.livejournal.com]

Fanibel - you know, ever since I lived in Australia for 4 years, I just cannot take the name Fanny seriously. And Fanibel? Even worse.

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

I'm glad someone asked, because I was going to ask if you were in the Phoenix area like me. We have many Somali refugees, so some names were familiar.

[politicking.livejournal.com]

A'jaye (I-Jay) : do not like the look or sound of this name.
Milaysha (me-lie-sha): reading it, I want to say Malaysia. Don't like.
Eliz: EE-liz or EE-lees? I don't hate it.
Beyonce: Stop.
Elianna: someone I know just had an Eliana. I don't really like it.
Oumou: I take it this is a cultural name? It's kind of cool lol
Iqra: cultural? Kind of neat, but a total mouthful with the sibset.
Rily: yuck.
Ousmane: I've met someone with the name "oos-man" not sure if it was spelled this way!
Bryant: this just reminds me that one time I met a man named Ryan Bryant. Yuck.

[piperwest12.livejournal.com]

Oumou is Nigerian as is Ousmane, and Igra's parents are from Bangladesh.

[tokossel.livejournal.com]

Lots of West African names :) awesome