<p>There's every indication that the truly weird i.e. names based on private parts and STDs, for example, are urban legends. </p>
<p>"As the 1917 example shows, this legend has been around for dogs' years. It now exists in two slightly different forms — the parents either misread a word, coming up with an unusual but pleasant-sounding pronounciation of same, or a member of the medical staff is overheard to properly pronounce the word, the parents think it pretty, and thus choose to stick the youngster with it. "
<a href="http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/names.htm</a></p>
<p>From the same site -- actual weird names (that incidentally were given to white children.</p>
<p>"Ima Hogg </p>
<p>Ima Hogg was real, but not her rumored sister, Ura. Ima (b. 1882 d. 1975) was the daughter of James Steven Hogg, Governor of Texas. </p>
<p>Mark Lemongello </p>
<p>A pitcher for the Houston Astros in the 1970s. </p>
<p>Shanda Lear </p>
<p>Daughter of Bill and Moya Lear (of Lear Jet fame). "</p>
<p>And, didn't a white movie star recently name her child "Apple"? And isn't another white movie star's child's name "Rumor"?</p>
<p>Peculiar names aren't just given to black kids.</p>