Comments Thread For: Yuniel 'The KO Doctor' Dorticos Ready To Put on a Show

[ИATAS]

I have a female cousin named Yanelis. lol

Those names are Russian influenced. They call them the "Y Generation," but it's said that Cubans are recently returning to more traditional (there goes that word again) names.

I read the Y names aren't as fashionable anymore but unique names are still popular, like merging the two parents names together or the dads name in reverse, or named after anything like a navy ship, etc! Also that 62% of Cubans are from African decent now so many stay away from traditional Spanish names. Interesting stuff.

[CubanGuyNYC]

I read the Y names aren't as fashionable anymore but unique names are still popular, like merging the two parents names together or the dads name in reverse, or named after anything like a navy ship, etc! Also that 62% of Cubans are from African decent now so many stay away from traditional Spanish names. Interesting stuff.

Shit, bro, I'm beginning to think you know more about current-day Cuba than I do! I'm impressed. lol

I've heard all kinds of demographic numbers. I don't know what to believe anymore. But 62% may be right, if we're talking about descent. Back in the day, Cubans didn't intermarry nearly as much as they do now. The old stats were about 50-50 black to white.

[DannYankee]

I knew that dude was Cuban the second I read his name. We have our own versions of shanequa's over there except idk where the fk the roots for those names came from. Yesniel Yuriorkis Yaniel Yasniel Yuniel wtf is up with all these Y names.

[CubanGuyNYC]

I knew that dude was Cuban the second I read his name. We have our own versions of shanequa's over there except idk where the fk the roots for those names came from. Yesniel Yuriorkis Yaniel Yasniel Yuniel wtf is up with all these Y names.

They're supposed to be Russian influenced.

[DannYankee]

They're supposed to be Russian influenced.

Someone lied to those parents

[ИATAS]

Shit, bro, I'm beginning to think you know more about current-day Cuba than I do! I'm impressed. lol

I've heard all kinds of demographic numbers. I don't know what to believe anymore. But 62% may be right, if we're talking about descent. Back in the day, Cubans didn't intermarry nearly as much as they do now. The old stats were about 50-50 black to white.

I told you I should be an honorary Cuban lol

Yeah I think pre revolution it was 60/40 black something like that but it's increased over the years. The article I cited with 62% was from 2008, it was an article during the Olympics and talked about Cuban names check it out it's really cool:

http://www.newsweek.com/why-cubans-h...al-names-87959

Here is a little interesting piece:

many middle-aged Cubans spent their youth fighting Fidel Castro's proxy wars in Ethiopia and Angola and may have given their kids African-sounding names in tribute to the continent. Similarly, the preponderance of names starting with the letter Y may reflect the contact Cubans had with Russian advisers sporting names like Yuri and Yevgeny in the years when the Soviet Union was bankrolling Castro's revolution.

[Cubanborn87]

I just read an interesting article a few day so ago, and it was talking about how the new generation does not have those unique names any more and more and more have traditional names now

[ИATAS]

I just read an interesting article a few day so ago, and it was talking about how the new generation does not have those unique names any more and more and more have traditional names now

This article is from 2012 and the reporter says all the children in the classroom he visited had very unusual names:

http://m.bbc.com/news/magazine-18270547

One child's name - Daneisys. "It is a combination of my parents' names. They are Daniel and Deisy, so that makes me Daneisys."

[...]

"There are people here named after ships that have visited Cuba," a young woman called Yamileisis tells me, approvingly. Usnavi - from US Navy - is the most famous.

And then I meet Noslenis. "It is Nelson - my Dad's name - backwards," she explains, at my raised eyebrows.

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But yeah, I'm sure normal names will and are starting to return, since that now will be in a way unique and fashionable!

[kozone]

I told you I should be an honorary Cuban lol

Yeah I think pre revolution it was 60/40 black something like that but it's increased over the years. The article I cited with 62% was from 2008, it was an article during the Olympics and talked about Cuban names check it out it's really cool:

http://www.newsweek.com/why-cubans-h...al-names-87959

Here is a little interesting piece:

many middle-aged Cubans spent their youth fighting Fidel Castro's proxy wars in Ethiopia and Angola and may have given their kids African-sounding names in tribute to the continent. Similarly, the preponderance of names starting with the letter Y may reflect the contact Cubans had with Russian advisers sporting names like Yuri and Yevgeny in the years when the Soviet Union was bankrolling Castro's revolution.

All you need to do is eat black beans and rice and your in!!! Lmao
Pretty cool facts!! I live in Miami so I get to cheat some funky ass names!! I've heard of navy as well!
And to think my parents named me Juan Albert...wtf

[kozone]

All you need to do is eat black beans and rice and your in!!! Lmao
Pretty cool facts!! I live in Miami so I get to cheat some funky ass names!! I've heard of navy as well!
And to think my parents named me Juan Albert...wtf

I get to HEAR some funky names...correction ****** phone