Black History Month

In honor of Black History Month, here are a collection of Black heroes for your naming inspiration! My favorites are Booker, Crispus, and Solomon.


Althea - Althea Gibson, American Tennis player
Arthur - Arthur Mitchell, U.S. Congressman
Baldwin - James Baldwin, writer
Bayard - Bayard Rustin, American civil rights activist
Bessie - Bessie Coleman, American Pilot
Booker - Booker T. Washington, American Author, poltician
Brooke - Edward Brooke III, U.S. Senator
Buck - Buck Leonard, American Baseball player
Carney - William H Carney, Civil War hero.
Crispus - Crispus Attucks, Participant in the Boston Massacre
Desmond - Desmond Tutu, South African activist and Bishop
Duke - Duke Ellington, American musician, composer
Eldridge - Eldridge Cleaver, American Civil Rights Activist
Ella - Ella Fitzgerald, American Jazz singer
Eubie - Eubie Blake, American Composer
Frederick - Frederick Douglass, American Author, Abolitionist
Garvey - Marcus Garvey, Jamaican political leader
George - George Washington Carver, American botanist and inventor
Goose - Goose Tatum, American Basketball player
Haile - Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia
Hank - Hank Aaron, American Baseball player
Harper - Frances Harper, American Poet, abolitionist
Harriet - Harriet Tubman, American Author, Abolitionist
Jarena - Jarena Lee, American author
Josephine - Josephine Baker, French singer, entertainer
Kofi - Kofi Annan, Ghanaian diplomat and Secretary General of the United Nations
Kwame - Kwame Nkrumak, Independence leader from Ghana
Langston - Langston Hughes, American Poet
Malcolm - Malcolm X, American Civil Rights Leader
Mandela - Nelson Mandela, South African activist
Marcus - Marcus Garvey, Jamaican political leader
Marley - Bob Marley, Jamaican reggae musician
Maya - Maya Angelou, American Poet
Medgar - Medgar Evers, Civil Rights activist
Musa - Musa Keita I, King of Mali
Nat - Nat Turner, American Abolitionist
Nelson - Nelson Mandela, South African activist
Nina - Nina Simone, American singer
Norbert - Norbert Rilleaux, American inventor
Nzinga - Queen Ana Nzinga, regent of Mbundu people in Modern day Angola
Olaudah - Olaudah Equiano, British abolitionist
Oscar - Oscar Charleston, American Baseball player
Pele - Pele, Brazilian soccer player
Percy - Percy Julian, American chemist
Reeves - Bass Reeves, U.S. Deputy Marshal
Rosa - Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist
Ruggles - David Ruggles, American abolitionist
Sally - Sally Hemings, Slave of Thomas Jefferson, and mother to his children
Satchel - Satchel Paige, American Baseball player
Satchmo - nickname of Louis Armstrong, Jazz trumpeter
Shaka - Shaka Zulu, King of the Zulu Kingdom
Shirley - Shirley Chisholm, American Congressman, author
Sojourner - Sojourner Truth, American Abolitionist
Solomon - Solomon Northup, American abolitionist
Thurgood - Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Wangari - Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmental activist and Nobel laureate

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