Random African American Name Generator

Authentic Black American first and last names

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Generate realistic African American names that span generations and styles, from classic names like Cassandra Jenkins and Bernard Wallace to modern favorites like Zuri Booker and Jalen Whitfield, all paired with surnames common in Black American families.

About random African American names

African American naming has its own recognizable history. Through most of the twentieth century, Black families in the United States drew from the same pool as everyone else, with certain names carrying more weight in the community: Cassandra, Yolanda, Ernestine, and Bernard, Cornelius, Roosevelt, and Booker (after Booker T. Washington). Southern double names like Willie Mae, Ola Mae, and Bessie Mae remain common among older generations. Surnames often trace back to Reconstruction, when freed people chose or kept names such as Freeman, Washington, Jefferson, Jenkins, Booker, and Whitfield, along with plantation-region surnames like Fauntleroy, Ravenell, and Prioleau that are now far more common in Black families than white ones.

From the late 1960s onward the Black Power and Black Arts movements pushed a distinct naming culture. Parents adopted Arabic and Swahili names (Aisha, Malik, Rashad, Imani, Nia, Kwame), and invented new names using favored prefixes and sounds, giving rise to La-, De-, Sha-, and Ta- names like LaShawn, DeAndre, Shanice, and Tamika. By the 2000s, names such as Jalen, Zuri, Amir, Nevaeh, and Kamari became popular.

A believable African American name usually pairs the given name with the right decade: Tanisha and Jerome read as born in the 1970s, Jayden and Nyla as born after 2005, Odessa and Cleophus as born before 1940.

How to choose random African American names

  • Pick the given name by birth year: Sheila, Yvonne, and Ronald for characters born in the 1950s to 60s; Keisha, Darnell, and Tamika for the 1970s to 80s; Jalen, Zuri, and Amir for the 2000s onward.
  • Surnames like Freeman, Washington, Jefferson, Booker, and Whitfield are strongly associated with African American families; Ravenell, Prioleau, and Fauntleroy point specifically to the Carolina and Virginia Lowcountry, Manigault, Gethers, and Smalls to the Gullah Geechee Sea Islands, and Thibodeaux, Guillory, and Metoyer to Louisiana Creole families.
  • Arabic and Swahili given names (Aisha, Malik, Rashad, Imani, Kwame) became common after the 1960s and often signal a family with pan-African or Muslim influence, which can be a useful character detail.
  • Double first names (Willie Mae, Bessie Mae, Mattie Ruth) are a Southern feature and work best for older characters or rural settings.
  • Avoid stacking every stereotyped marker on one character; real names in Black families range from Cornelius Bynum to Kennedy Chisholm, and variety reads as authentic.

Frequently asked questions

What makes a name distinctly African American?

Usually a combination of factors: given names popularized within Black communities after the 1960s (LaShawn, DeAndre, Tanisha, Imani), older Southern favorites (Willie Mae, Cleophus, Odessa), and surnames like Freeman, Washington, Booker, and Jenkins that are far more common in Black families than in the general population.

Where do names like Shanice, DeAndre, and Tamika come from?

They emerged in the 1970s and 80s as part of a creative naming tradition that combined familiar prefixes (La-, De-, Sha-, Ta-) with existing names or melodic endings. They are original American coinages rather than borrowings from any single African language.

Why are surnames like Freeman and Washington so common in Black families?

After emancipation, formerly enslaved people chose their own legal surnames. Many picked names of presidents (Washington, Jefferson, Jackson), descriptive names (Freeman), or the surnames of local families, which is why certain names became concentrated in African American communities.

Can I use these names for characters in a book, game, or film?

Yes. All names here are combinations of real given names and surnames and are free to use. Because the parts are real, a pairing can also belong to a real person; the list was not checked against any register. If you are writing outside your own culture, pair a good name with careful, specific characterization.

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All 1,000 random African American names

This is the complete list the generator above draws its random batches from, sorted A to Z and grouped by first letter.

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A: 78 names

  • Aaliyah Jenkins
  • Abeni Mims
  • Abraham Capers
  • Adaeze Whitfield
  • Addie Mae Shealey
  • Ade Lawal-Carter
  • Adele LaSalle
  • Adrian Zachery
  • Adrienne Bledsoe
  • Ahmad Bynum
  • Aisha Muhammad
  • Akil Broadnax
  • Akilah Hagans
  • Alana Pinkney
  • Albert Toney
  • Alcide Batiste
  • Aleah Copeland
  • Alexis Broadnax
  • Alfred Whitley
  • Alicia Sinclair
  • Alisha Glenn
  • Aliyah Poindexter
  • Alma Applewhite
  • Alonzo Cofer
  • Alonzo Ridley
  • Alphonse Doucet
  • Althea Braxton
  • Alvin Mabry
  • Amani Cofield
  • Amara Sinclair
  • Amaya Kirkland
  • Ameerah Shabazz
  • Amelie Narcisse
  • Amina Faulkner
  • Aminata Hargrove
  • Amir Rutledge
  • Amos Gilliard
  • Anaya Hatcher
  • Andre Faulkner

A, continued

  • Andrea Kinsey
  • Andrell Winfrey
  • Angela Bynum
  • Angelique Ellison
  • Anissa Toliver
  • Anita Bazemore
  • Aniyah Pettiford
  • Annette Barthelemy
  • Annie Mae Bridgeforth
  • Anthony Cofield
  • Antoine Baptiste
  • Antoinette Thibodeaux
  • Antonio Peoples
  • Antwan Sherrod
  • Antwone Rowe
  • Archie Rivers
  • Ariana Wright
  • Ariel Boone
  • Aristide Bagneris
  • Ariyah Mack
  • Arlene Bullock
  • Arletha Hinton
  • Armand LeBlanc
  • Arthur Scriven
  • Asha Pettaway
  • Ashaki Vinson
  • Ashanti Barksdale
  • Ashley Peoples
  • Asia Winbush
  • Aubrey Richardson
  • Audrey Cannady
  • Augustin Lemelle
  • Augustus Crenshaw
  • Aurelia Lavergne
  • Ayana Simms
  • Ayanna Cross
  • Ayden Fortson
  • Ayesha Rhodes
  • Ayo Adebayo-Reed

B: 28 names

  • Baraka Dozier
  • Barbara Threatt
  • Beatrice Legare
  • Benjamin Whitehurst
  • Bernadette Hebert
  • Bernard Wallace
  • Bernice Covington
  • Bessie Mae Talley
  • Betty Jean Deloach
  • Bettye Coates
  • Beulah Blanding
  • Beverly Crump
  • Bianca Ledbetter
  • Bilal Rashid
  • Bobbie Jean Edmondson
  • Bobby Ray Tolliver
  • Booker T. Ferguson
  • Brandon Toliver
  • Brandy Varner
  • Brenda Merriweather
  • Bria Edmonds
  • Brianna Threatt
  • Brielle Grant
  • Brittany Winbush
  • Bryant Younger
  • Bryce Hampton
  • Bryson Blount
  • Byron Blakely

C: 69 names

  • Calvin Pettigrew
  • Cameron Legette
  • Camille Sturdivant
  • Candace Ravenell
  • Carl Stovall
  • Carla Bumpers
  • Carlton Hairston
  • Carmelo Butler
  • Carmen Rainey
  • Carolyn Finley
  • Carrie Huger
  • Cassandra Jenkins
  • Cassius Merriweather
  • Cecil Stubbs
  • Cecile Rochon
  • Cedric Copeland
  • Celestine Honore
  • Cephas Pringle
  • Chandra Blount
  • Chanel Everett
  • Chantel Bostic
  • Charisma Holloway
  • Charisse Braxton
  • Charity Minter
  • Charlene Wingfield
  • Charles Bracey
  • Charmaine Faulkner
  • Chauncey Blakeney
  • Chelsea Booker
  • Cheryl Fluellen
  • Chester Mazyck
  • Chike Nwosu-Brooks
  • Chiquita Tuggle
  • Christopher Toussaint

C, continued

  • Chyna Ingram
  • Ciara Woodard
  • Clara Hamlin
  • Clarence Wingate
  • Clarice Mims
  • Claude Carriere
  • Claudette Fuselier
  • Clayton Bankhead
  • Clement Simien
  • Clementine Metoyer
  • Cleophus Pointer
  • Cleotha Dillard
  • Cleveland Dunston
  • Clifford Blackshear
  • Clifton Boykin
  • Clyde Hightower
  • Colette Prudhomme
  • Constance Fauntleroy
  • Cora Seabrook
  • Cordell Purnell
  • Coretta Moody
  • Corey Lassiter
  • Corine Truesdale
  • Corinne Wingfield
  • Cornelius Bynum
  • Cornell Whitlock
  • Cortez Lassiter
  • Courtney Buford
  • Craig Winfield
  • Crystal Blakeney
  • Curtis Faison
  • Curtis Lee Odom
  • Cynthia Roberson
  • Cyprien Dupuy
  • Cyrus Prioleau

D: 77 names

  • D'Angelo Sumter
  • Da'Ron McCullough
  • Daisy Fludd
  • Daja Battle
  • Dajuan Rowland
  • Damari Whitmore
  • Damien Bynum
  • Damon Whitmore
  • Danae Suggs
  • Danielle Threadgill
  • Danita Streeter
  • Dante Bethea
  • Daquan Poindexter
  • Darion Toney
  • Darius Kirkland
  • Darlene Ridley
  • Darnell Pettway
  • Darrell Bumpus
  • Darren Suggs
  • Dashawn Cato
  • David Culpepper
  • Davon Grier
  • Dawn Bumpus
  • Dawud Spann
  • De'Aaron Gantt
  • De'Anthony Moultrie
  • De'Asia Herndon
  • DeAndre Washington
  • Deborah Merriweather
  • Deja Roberson
  • Delano Chisholm
  • Delbert Brockington
  • Delonte Faison
  • Delores Whitlock
  • Deloris Prioleau
  • Delphine Francois
  • Delvin Shropshire
  • Demarcus Sherrod

D, continued

  • Demetrius Simms
  • Demond Yarbrough
  • Denise Lofton
  • Dennis Rankin
  • Denzel Whitmore
  • Deon Blakely
  • Derek Winbush
  • Derrick Truesdale
  • Derwin Cofield
  • DeShawn Whitaker
  • Desiree Peoples
  • Desmond Ussery
  • Dessie Mae Purifoy
  • Destiny Hairston
  • Devin Whitehead
  • Devon Threatt
  • DeVonte Ruffin
  • Dexter Ellerbe
  • Diallo Blackwell
  • Diamond Battle
  • Diane Cofer
  • Dion Sturdivant
  • Dionne Askew
  • Dominique Ellison
  • Domonique Wingate
  • Donald Blount
  • Donna Spratley
  • Donnell Lanier
  • Donovan Priestley
  • Dontavious Upshaw
  • Donte Bracey
  • Dontrell Sessoms
  • Dorcas Spearman
  • Doreen Alston
  • Dorian Truesdale
  • Doris Fluellen
  • Dorothy Pettway
  • Dwayne Jefferson
  • Dwight Fortson

E: 54 names

  • Earl Sneed
  • Earline Pryor
  • Ebonee Chatman
  • Ebony Cunningham
  • Eddie Lee Kelsey
  • Edgar Burgess
  • Edith Haywood
  • Edna Frazier
  • Edward Poindexter
  • Egypt Kimbrough
  • Elaine Motley
  • Elgin Wimberly
  • Elias Goodwine
  • Elijah Mayfield
  • Elise Everett
  • Elisha Sewell
  • Elliott Threadgill
  • Elmer Claiborne
  • Elmore Durham
  • Elnora Heyward
  • Elodie Victorian
  • Eloise Tuggle
  • Elsie Holley
  • Emeline Chretien
  • Emile Chenier
  • Emmanuel Spivey
  • Emmett Royster
  • Enoch Mikell
  • Ephraim Mungin
  • Eric Cunningham
  • Erica Talley
  • Erin Whitaker
  • Erma Hudgins
  • Ernest Sturdivant
  • Ernestine Whitmore
  • Ervin Dantzler
  • Essence Foreman
  • Essie Mae Lumpkin
  • Estelle Aiken
  • Esther Fields
  • Ethel Wingate
  • Etienne Lacour
  • Etta Doctor
  • Eugene Witherspoon
  • Eugenie Jean-Louis
  • Eula Mae Gaskins
  • Eulalie Dejoie
  • Eunice Bumpers
  • Evangeline Dumas
  • Evariste Joubert
  • Evelyn Ravenell
  • Ezekiel Polite
  • Ezell Mobley
  • Ezra Langston

F: 18 names

  • Fabien Arvie
  • Faith Neal
  • Fannie Tisdale
  • Fatima Cunningham
  • Faye Jernigan
  • Felicia Bostic
  • Felix Slade
  • Femi Scales
  • Florence Venning
  • Flossie Mae Jeter
  • Floyd Massenburg
  • Floyd Ray Cato
  • Folami Tisdale
  • Frances Prioleau
  • Frankie Overstreet
  • Franklin Odom
  • Freddie Ferrell
  • Frederick Douglass Hines

G: 26 names

  • Gabriel Ridley
  • Gabrielle Toussaint
  • Gale Kinsey
  • Garland Talley
  • Gary Toney
  • Genesis Pittman
  • Geneva Broussard
  • George Bostic
  • Georgette Guidry
  • Georgia Mae Kendrick
  • Gerald McCray
  • Geraldine Arrington
  • Gervais Mallet
  • Gideon Meadows
  • Gilbert Tinsley
  • Gina Blount
  • Girard Zeno
  • Giselle Hairston
  • Gladys Sherrod
  • Glenn Truitt
  • Gloria Buford
  • Grady Dukes
  • Greg Pettigrew
  • Gregory Askew
  • Gwen Sadler
  • Gwendolyn Whitfield

H: 27 names

  • Hakeem Blanding
  • Halima Salaam
  • Hank Truitt
  • Hannah Milligan
  • Harmony Spratley
  • Harold Whitlock
  • Harriet Blanding
  • Harvey Winfield
  • Hasani Gadson
  • Hassan Crenshaw
  • Hattie Cheatham
  • Hazel Bowens
  • Heaven Hollins
  • Helen Rucker
  • Henrietta Yarbrough
  • Henry Simpkins
  • Herbert Booker
  • Herman Fennell
  • Hezekiah Gordon
  • Homer Gaither
  • Honesty Pressley
  • Hope Walden
  • Horace Cofer
  • Hortense Goudeau
  • Hosea Fluellen
  • Howard Truesdale
  • Hubert Lanier

I: 17 names

  • Ibrahim Stroud
  • Ida Mae Purvis
  • Idella Speight
  • Idris Rahman
  • Iesha McCants
  • Ignace Porche
  • Imani Okafor-Jones
  • India Whitehurst
  • Inez Lattimore
  • Irene Waller
  • Isaac Weathersby
  • Isaiah Cofield
  • Isaiah Whitfield
  • Ishmael Majeed
  • Israel Thurman
  • Ivan Legette
  • Ivy Barksdale

J: 99 names

  • J.T. Pettway
  • J.W. Toliver
  • Ja'Corey McGhee
  • Ja'Kayla Roundtree
  • Ja'Kobi Kittrell
  • Ja'Mya Bolden
  • Ja'Net Quarles
  • Ja'Niyah Lundy
  • Ja'Tavion Tatum
  • Jabari Sneed
  • Jabez Brailsford
  • Jace Bumbry
  • Jacqueline Blackmon
  • Jacques Cormier
  • Jada Broussard
  • Jade Gamble
  • Jaden Toussaint
  • Jaheim Cato
  • Jahi Lockett
  • Jakari Jordan
  • Jaleel Spann
  • Jalen Whitfield
  • Jalisa Baptiste
  • Jamal Robinson
  • Jamar Reddick
  • Jamarcus Rainey
  • Jamari Womack
  • Jameel Waller
  • Jameka Trotter
  • James Earl Suggs
  • Jamie Pettus
  • Jamila Sanders
  • Jamir Glover
  • Jamison Culpepper
  • Janae Motley
  • Janelle Bumpus
  • Janice Faison
  • Janie Manigault
  • Jaquan Sherrill
  • Jaquez Timmons
  • Jarell Scales
  • Jarrett Ellerbe
  • Jarrod Blackmon
  • Jarvis Motley
  • Jasmin Rutledge
  • Jasmine Mosley
  • Jasmine Whitehead
  • Jasper Middleton
  • Javion Yancey

J, continued

  • Javon Whitfield
  • Jawanza Lanier
  • Jaxon Walker
  • Jayceon Bailey
  • Jayden Alexander
  • Jaylen Foreman
  • Jaylin Cheatham
  • Jazlyn Zeigler
  • Jean Kirkland
  • Jean-Baptiste Boudreaux
  • Jean-Pierre Decuir
  • Jeanette Robichaux
  • Jeffrey Ledbetter
  • Jelani Booker
  • Jenae Bledsoe
  • Jennifer Pinkney
  • Jeremiah Prather
  • Jermaine Rowe
  • Jerome Banks
  • Jerry Bivens
  • Jesse Hairston
  • Jessica Boykin
  • Jewel Bostic
  • Jibril Sharif
  • Jimmie Lee Whitted
  • Joan Askew
  • Joanne Grier
  • Jocelyn Sherrill
  • Joe Nathan McCants
  • Joel Broadnax
  • Johnnie Mae Reddick
  • Johnny Mack Tarver
  • Jomo Sessoms
  • Jonathan Toliver
  • Jordan Ferguson
  • Joseph Chatman
  • Josephine Hollis
  • Josette Bellard
  • Joshua Lassiter
  • Josiah Wimberly
  • Journee Redd
  • Joyce Askew
  • Juanita Toliver
  • Judah Tyus
  • Judith Beasley
  • Jules Gobert
  • Julien Rousseve
  • Julius Alston
  • Justice Wingfield
  • Juwan Belton

K: 68 names

  • Kadeem Whitlock
  • Kaden Beasley
  • Kadijah Faison
  • Kairo Williams
  • Kalani Pressley
  • Kaleb Ravenell
  • Kalil Sturdivant
  • Kaliyah Ledbetter
  • Kamal Truesdale
  • Kamari Blackwell
  • Kamaria Shuler
  • Kamau Tennyson
  • Kamila Slade
  • Kamiyah Poindexter
  • Karen Baptiste
  • Karim Odom
  • Karimah Bey
  • Karter Green
  • Kasey Blount
  • Kash Taylor
  • Kashmir Winbush
  • Katina Lockhart
  • Katrina Bethea
  • Kayden Chatman
  • Kayla Prather
  • Kayla Rowe
  • Ke'Andre Hodge
  • Keenan Ellison
  • Keisha Wallace
  • Keith Kinsey
  • Kelly Cofer
  • Kelsey Odom
  • Kelvin Everett
  • Kendall Rucker

K, continued

  • Kendarius Dawkins
  • Kendra Purnell
  • Kendrick Grier
  • Kenisha Simms
  • Kennedy Chisholm
  • Kenneth Roberson
  • Kentrell Jeter
  • Kenya Dorsey
  • Kenyatta Sneed
  • Kenyon Lattimore
  • Keon Whitted
  • Kevin Faulkner
  • Kevon Darby
  • Keyshawn Pettaway
  • Khalilah Akbar
  • Khari Mackey
  • Kiana Rucker
  • Kianna Wingate
  • Kiara Ivory
  • Kimberly Rowland
  • King Tolbert
  • Kingsley Patterson
  • Kingston Mosley
  • Kobe Sherrill
  • Kofi Ellington
  • Kojo Burrell
  • Kwame Hollis
  • Kwesi Mumford
  • Kyla Sherrod
  • Kyler Henderson
  • Kymani Charles
  • Kyra Wooten
  • Kyree Thomas
  • Kyrie Sadler

L: 63 names

  • L.C. Hairston
  • La'Porsha Pollard
  • Ladarius Gilmore
  • LaKeisha Tillman
  • Lamar Kinsey
  • LaMarcus Hardaway
  • Lamont Bostic
  • LaQuita Shealey
  • Larry Blakely
  • LaShawn Bivens
  • Latasha Bumbry
  • Latifah Ameen
  • Latonya Copeland
  • Latoya Simmons
  • Latrell Hunley
  • Latrice Bracey
  • Lavar Pettis
  • Lavell Staton
  • Lavon Stallings
  • LaVonne Shuler
  • Lawanda Felder
  • Lawrence Odom
  • Layla Truitt
  • Lazarus Venable
  • Leander Stallings
  • Legacy Tolliver
  • Legend McCray
  • Lemuel Hargrove
  • Lena Ruffin
  • Lenora Garrett
  • Leola Drayton

L, continued

  • Leon Frilot
  • Leonard Poindexter
  • Leonce Charbonnet
  • Leontine Trevigne
  • Leroy Gilliam
  • Leslie Winfrey
  • Lester Tillman
  • Levi Grayson
  • Lillian Overstreet
  • Lillie Mae Wigfall
  • Linda Fortson
  • Lionel Streeter
  • Lisa Summers
  • Lisette Mouton
  • Lloyd Ivory
  • Londyn Carter
  • Lonnie Mangum
  • Lorenzo Pettiford
  • Loretta Sturdivant
  • Lorraine Purnell
  • Lottie Burrell
  • Louis Slade
  • Louise Kearney
  • Lovie Easley
  • Lucien Arceneaux
  • Lucille Wimberly
  • Lucinda Scales
  • Lucius Pendergrass
  • Luqman El-Amin
  • Luther Prather
  • Lydia Harper
  • Lynette Foreman

M: 65 names

  • Mabel Cato
  • Mae Frances Knighten
  • Mahalia Reese
  • Majesty Hines
  • Major Woodard
  • Makayla Dixon
  • Makeda Lockhart
  • Malachi Overstreet
  • Malcolm Watkins
  • Malia Scott
  • Malik Harris
  • Mamie Lockett
  • Marcel Guillory
  • Marcella Lockridge
  • Marcellus Tyson
  • Marcia Bracey
  • Marcus Freeman
  • Margaret Rutledge
  • Marguerite Jolivette
  • Mariah Joyner
  • Marilyn Weathersby
  • Markell Hinton
  • Marlon Simms
  • Marquis Dupree
  • Marquita Durham
  • Marsha Pettus
  • Martez Irby
  • Martin Ferrell
  • Marva Lightfoot
  • Marvin Gaines
  • Mary Alice Beasley
  • Mathilde Sonnier

M, continued

  • Mattie Ruth Pettus
  • Maurice Chatman
  • Mavis Darby
  • Maxine Legette
  • Maya Hollins
  • Maybelle Stallworth
  • Melba Mallory
  • Melinda Chisholm
  • Melvin Ussery
  • Mercy Tribble
  • Messiah Lofton
  • Micah Ferrell
  • Michael Broussard
  • Michelle Faison
  • Milan Moore
  • Mildred Sadler
  • Milton Ussery
  • Minnie Gadsden
  • Miracle Dorsey
  • Miriam Sykes
  • Monica Flowers
  • Monifa Durham
  • Monique Gaines
  • Monisha Arrington
  • Montez Pendergrass
  • Montrell Hargrove
  • Morgan Garrison
  • Morris Boone
  • Moses Smalls
  • Mozelle Dandridge
  • Mustafa Crockett
  • Myron Mosby
  • Myrtle Lesesne

N: 28 names

  • Nadine McElroy
  • Nadirah Shakur
  • Nailah Aziz
  • Naimah Staton
  • Nakia Redd
  • Nakiya Cheatham
  • Nanette Guillaume
  • Naomi Ransom
  • Narcisse Ozenne
  • Nasir Hasan
  • Natasha Ellington
  • Nathan Hollis
  • Nathaniel Ferguson
  • Nehemiah Daniels
  • Nellie Youmans
  • Nettie Singletary
  • Nevaeh Streeter
  • Nia Grier
  • Niara Baskerville
  • Nichelle Jackson
  • Nicole Reddick
  • Noble Wynn
  • Norma Barksdale
  • Norman Roseboro
  • Nova Brown
  • Nubia Gaskins
  • Nyla Bracey
  • Nzinga Pegues

O: 21 names

  • Obadiah Hodges
  • Octave Glapion
  • Octavia Boykin
  • Octavious Weaver
  • Odell Lomax
  • Odessa Rucker
  • Odette Chevalier
  • Odile Boutte
  • Ola Mae Pittman
  • Olivier DeRouen
  • Omar Tillery
  • Omari Wynn
  • Opal McLemore
  • Ophelia Whitaker
  • Ora Lee Huggins
  • Orlando McLaurin
  • Oscar Purvis
  • Ossie Ladson
  • Otha Trotter
  • Otis Bledsoe
  • Otis Lee Bumbry

P: 20 names

  • Paige Singleton
  • Pamela Buford
  • Paris Lewis
  • Patience Parrish
  • Patrice Lassiter
  • Patricia Ridley
  • Paul Wallace
  • Paulette Booker
  • Pearlie Mae Dozier
  • Percival Mathis
  • Percy Ravenell
  • Philomene Senegal
  • Phyllis Pointer
  • Pierre Fruge
  • Placide Olivier
  • Portia Merritt
  • Precious Alston
  • Prince Mabry
  • Princess Vickers
  • Priscilla Whitlock

Q: 6 names

  • Queen Esther Scruggs
  • Queenie Stroud
  • Quiana Beckham
  • Quincy Rowe
  • Quintavious Vaughn
  • Quinton Mayfield

R: 51 names

  • R.L. Culbreath
  • Rachel Toney
  • Raekwon Mangum
  • Rahim Covington
  • Rakeem Baskerville
  • Ralph Winbush
  • Randall Grimes
  • Randolph Cofield
  • Raoul Fontenot
  • Rashad Bryant
  • Rashawn Kearse
  • Rasheed Purvis
  • Rasheeda Blakely
  • Raven Gibson
  • Rayford Eubanks
  • Raymond Boone
  • Reggie Newsome
  • Regina Tolbert
  • Reginald Truitt
  • Reign McKoy
  • Remy Tureaud
  • Rene Augustine
  • Renee Sturdivant
  • Renita Ellerbe
  • Reuben Ancrum
  • Rhonda Threatt
  • Richard Faison
  • Rita Goodwin
  • Robert Ellerbe
  • Robin Winfrey
  • Rochelle Napier
  • Roderick Bostic
  • Rodney Battle
  • Roland Askew
  • Ronald Peoples
  • Rondell McFadden
  • Ronnie Oden
  • Roosevelt Gaddy
  • Rosa Lee Chatman
  • Rosalind Ivory
  • Roscoe Gholston
  • Rose Marie Whitfield
  • Rosetta Glenn
  • Roy Massenburg
  • Royal Bullard
  • Ruby Nell Bledsoe
  • Rudolph Harkless
  • Rufus Dunlap
  • Russell Odom
  • Ruth Rowe
  • Ruthie Mae Gilmore

S: 66 names

  • Sade Ferguson
  • Sadie Vinson
  • Safiya Ali
  • Saint Delaney
  • Sakinah Abdullah
  • Salim Tyson
  • Sallie Gethers
  • Sammie Hemphill
  • Samuel Bumpus
  • Sanaa Holloway
  • Sandra Kirkland
  • Saniyah Tate
  • Sarah Blakely
  • Savion Goins
  • Sekou Kearse
  • Selma Norwood
  • Semaj Ford
  • Serenity Adams
  • Shalonda Kelsey
  • Shamar Fuqua
  • Shameka Gadson
  • Shanelle Pryor
  • Shani Felder
  • Shanice Bell
  • Shanika Burrell
  • Shaniqua Mobley
  • Shanita Pegues
  • Shaquan Dunston
  • Shaquille Dozier
  • Sharif Kendrick
  • Sharika Tennyson
  • Sharon Peterkin
  • Sharonda Askew

S, continued

  • Shauntae Fauntleroy
  • Shavonne Leggett
  • Shawanda Lumpkin
  • Shayla Westbrook
  • Sheila Rainey
  • Shekinah Vance
  • Sherita Hagans
  • Sherman Beckham
  • Shirley Motley
  • Shonda Vinson
  • Silas Nance
  • Simeon Bellinger
  • Simone Vickers
  • Sincere Dupree
  • Skye Mitchell
  • Skylar Bethea
  • Solange Duplessis
  • Solomon Deveaux
  • Sonny Felder
  • Sonya Waller
  • Stacey Wilcox
  • Stanley Culpepper
  • Stella Posey
  • Stephanie Prather
  • Stephon Echols
  • Sterling Hubbard
  • Steven Culpepper
  • Sumayyah Muhammad
  • Susie Wineglass
  • Suzette Haydel
  • Sydney Brooks
  • Sylvester Boyd
  • Sylvia Sneed

T: 61 names

  • Tabitha Lacy
  • Tahira Saleem
  • Takisha Coates
  • Taliyah McClendon
  • Tamara Gaddy
  • Tameka Ravenell
  • Tamia McDaniel
  • Tamika Booker
  • Tangela Leggett
  • Tanisha Coleman
  • Taraji Bledsoe
  • Tariq Gilchrist
  • Tasha Grimes
  • Tatyana Ware
  • Tavares Wiggins
  • Tavon Battle
  • Tawana Singletary
  • Tawanda Speight
  • Terrell Hawkins
  • Terrence Baldwin
  • Terry Blount
  • Tevin Flagg
  • Thaddeus Crockett
  • Thelma Cheatham
  • Theodore Cheatham
  • Theophile Pierre
  • Therese Papillion
  • Thomas Fauntleroy
  • Tiana Wilkerson
  • Tierra Thigpen

T, continued

  • Tiffany Rowland
  • Timothy Rutledge
  • Titus Page
  • Tobias Riddick
  • Toni Wadley
  • Tony Poindexter
  • Tonya Mims
  • Tracy Boykin
  • Travis Wilburn
  • Tre'Shawn Oglesby
  • Treasure Witherspoon
  • Tremaine Stallworth
  • Trevon Gilliam
  • Trevor Toliver
  • Trey Randle
  • Trina Covington
  • Trinity Ledbetter
  • Tristan Tucker
  • Troy Whitehead
  • Tunde Mobley
  • Ty'Asia Isom
  • Ty'Son Pegram
  • Tyesha Lockett
  • Tyler Weathersby
  • Tyquan Benton
  • Tyra Gooden
  • Tyree Coaxum
  • Tyrese Blackmon
  • Tyrique Givens
  • Tyrone Gaskins
  • Tyshawn Eubanks

U: 2 names

  • Ulysses Tillery
  • Uriah Wardlaw

V: 16 names

  • Valerie Merriweather
  • Vanessa Motley
  • Velma Boyd
  • Vera Redmond
  • Verdell Seals
  • Verna Mae Belton
  • Vernell Shropshire
  • Vernita Starks
  • Vernon Bynum
  • Veronica Grier
  • Victor Truesdale
  • Vincent Alston
  • Viola Truitt
  • Virgil Ivey
  • Vivian Sherrod
  • Vontae Hightower

W: 18 names

  • Wallace Vanderhorst
  • Walter Fauntleroy
  • Wanda Blackmon
  • Wardell McMillan
  • Warren Chatman
  • Waymon Spann
  • Wendell Gilchrist
  • Wesley Ellerbe
  • Wilbert Benton
  • Wilhelmina Swain
  • Willa Mae Bumpers
  • Willard Judkins
  • William Ravenell
  • Willie Bracey
  • Willie Mae Threadgill
  • Willis Kimble
  • Wilma Pettway
  • Winston Pruitt

X: 2 names

  • Xavier Boykin
  • Xzavier McKoy

Y: 5 names

  • Yasmin Hunley
  • Yolanda Sneed
  • Yusuf Dunlap
  • Yvette Rucker
  • Yvonne Suggs

Z: 15 names

  • Zainab Hakim
  • Zaire Davis
  • Zakiya Coaxum
  • Zara Delaney
  • Zaria Ussery
  • Zawadi Belton
  • Zechariah Ragland
  • Zelie Soileau
  • Zelma Fluellen
  • Zenobia Teague
  • Zion Whitehead
  • Zipporah Mayo
  • Zola Singletary
  • Zora Wingate
  • Zuri Booker