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Anika (Devanagari: अनिका) is a female given name of Arabic, African, Dutch, German, Hebrew, Māori, Sanskrit, and Swedish origin [1] and is also an alternative spelling of the name Annika or Anikha [2]
By the 1970s and 1980s, it had become common within the African American culture to invent new names, although many of the invented names took elements from popular existing names. Prefixes such as La/Le, Da/De, Ra/Re, or Ja/Je are common, as well as inventive spellings for the name Tanisha. [5] US Popularity by Rank top 1000 names [6]
This includes all feminine given names that can also be found in the subcategories. ... Indian feminine given names (1 C, ... South African feminine given names (30 P)
Pages in category "African feminine given names" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Abebech;
Ababu Minda Yimene, An African Indian Community in Hyderabad: Siddi Identity, Its Maintenance and Change, Cuvillier Verlag, 2004, p. 201. Omar H. Ali, The African Diaspora in India, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.
A Sheedi girl in Gujarat, India. Afro-Asians (or African Asians) are African communities that have been living in the Indian subcontinent for centuries and have settled in countries such as India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. This includes the Siddis (who have been in India and Pakistan for over a thousand years) and Kaffirs in Sri Lanka.
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Lieberson and Mikelson of Harvard University analyzed black names, finding that the recent innovative naming practices follow American linguistic conventions even if they are independent of organizations or institutions. [10] Given names used by African-American people are often invented or creatively-spelled variants of more traditional names.