Can you tell a person's race by his/her name...?

Answer 1

Statistically, there are names that are more likely to be held by members of a specific race. There are more black Jamal's than white ones.

Answer 2

Names are part of language and culture although names cross cultures very well. It is likely that someone called Mohammed will be Islamic but that does not tell you whether they are Indonesian, Iranian or American.

Race is a strange thing that is very difficult to define, in fact the more you try to define it, the more difficult it becomes. It is much easier to ignore race as a classification of people altogether - and many countries do precisely that.

Answer 3

Noooooooo

You can guess where he come from but not his race.

Carlos Ray is the real first name of the all american superstar Chuck Norris.

Sidney Poitier is a black actor not french nor white.

What about Will Smith or Jame Earl Jones

Of-course some people choose ethnics names but a name is just a name, you can name call Chuck Norris as Carlos but that wont make him a latin man.

Answer 4

Often, yes. (I'd say about 95% of the time if you look at both the first and the last name of a person.) When you have an Anastasia, a Juanita, and a Shaniqua, I think you can figure out which one is White, which one is Hispanic, and which one is Black. (Or, if a person is mixed, you can take a pretty good guess at what they are mixed with.)

Answer 5

Infra Reds answer is funny but I guess true because I'm white & years ago I had a friend whose daughters name was Shaniqua & I loved that name, so 15 years later when I knew I was having a girl I wanted to name her Shaniqua, but my black neighbor was so insulted that I would take a name "from her heritage" & give it to a white child & since she was my friend & said all blacks feel that way, I just took her word for it & went with something different

Answer 6

Maybe. I've never met a Norwegian named Ricardo Perez. I've never met a black named Li Xio Xing. I've never met a Samoan named Vladimir Dostoyevski.

Answer 7

Many races or countries have typical names
but names are more typical of religion.and language

Answer 8

In most occasions, yes. Just know if you name your kids Tyrone or Shaniqua, they are destined to be turned down for a lot of jobs and colleges.LOL

Answer 9

Sometimes

Answer 10

yeah if you have names like Maria, Tameka, Antonio, Domingo, Juanita, Sheneneh, etc...