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White parents tend to jazz up their spelling rather than invent names, Figlio found. You’ll see the name Alexander but spelled Alexzander. “That’s almost exclu- sively white,” he says. And if it’s spelled Alixander, “that name comes with a likelihood that the mom was a high school dropout.” A number of ethnically identi-
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same families. To get the story on LaceDarius,
I went straight to the source. Roena (Row-eena) Lee says she got part of her son’s name from his father, Lacey, but doesn’t know how she came up with the whole thing. Lee, who has an as- sociate’s degree in child care, manages a barbecue restaurant called Podnuh’s in Monroe, a pre- dominantly black city of about 50,000 in Northeast Louisiana. She also has a daughter named Roniquia (Roe-nee-quee-ah) and a son named DaVarious. Roni- quia has an 8-year-old daughter, Corniquia; DaVarious, who will study engineering at Grambling in the fall, has a DaVarious Jr. Lee loves her kids’ names, loves that they’re the only ones who have them, loves the atten- tion she gets when she says them. “I get excited and everybody’s like, ‘Where you get that from?’ ” Across the telephone line, you can feel the smile lighting her face. Lee says even her mother gave her a hard time over her son’s name. “She said, ‘Roena, you gon- na name this boy LaceDarius?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, Mama. I can’t sit up and think of no other name. That’s what his name is go- ing to be.’ ” At birth, LaceDarius had a
large head and big shoulders, and doctors were preparing to give Lee an emergency C-section when all of a sudden, “this boy just popped out,” Lee says. “I said this boy is going to be something one day, and here he is.” People stop her on the street to congrat- ulate her on his success. So what does LaceDarius
think? He says girls used to call him Shoelace and he usually has to re- peat his name two or three times before people get it. “ ‘Is it Lace and Darius? Is it two names?’ ” they’ll ask. Ask him if he likes his name and he chuckles. “I’ve had
If the person is a standout, an unconventional name can become synonymous with his or her cool.
it for 23 years. I can’t change it. I turned it into a popular name that people come to know through the things I do,” he says. “I’m enjoying it.” The Baylor star hopes to play in the NBA and be a head coach. He has a 2-year-old son . . . and the question hangs in the air. Name?
Dillion, says Dunn. You didn’t want want a Lace- Darius Jr.? “No. Not really. No, ma’am,” Dunn says, and his mother in- terrupts. Mother to son: “I thought you
liked your name,” Lee teases. “I do,” Dunn says. “But I just
didn’t want to keep it going. I want to be the one and only.” I, for one, think he made a
good call. I found myself wishing Baylor had beaten Duke, just so I could hear the rhythm of LaceDarius Dunn over and over again. For some parents, calling their chil- dren by pretty sounds is aspira- tional. A way to lift people out of the regular-old of their surround- ings. A little poetry in a workaday life. I thought back to the day I
watched the game. Baylor lost to Duke, 78-71, in a heartbreaker, as all losses in the NCAA tourna- ment are. And as the young Bay- lor players walked off, some per- haps to the last applause they’ll ever get, LaceDarius was trailed closely by his teammate, and friend since 10th grade, Tweety Carter. I just shook my head and smiled. Tweety — now there’s a solid name for you. Actually, his real name is De- mond Carvez Carter.
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