A LITTLE BACKGROUND MUSIC. Lead vocalist in a trio of Cleveland rock bands in her teens, Anne Cochran was putting down demos and jingles before making everything official with a degree in Theater and Voice from Case Western Reserve University.
The UNICEF estimates that an average of 353,000 babies are born each day around the world. The crude birth rate is 18.9 births per 1,000 population or 255 births globally per minute or 4.3 births every second (as of Dec. 2013 estimate) Our current world population is approximately 7.2 billion and growing. It passed the 7 billion mark in 2011.
200,000 babies are born worldwide every single day. Can you believe it? Of that number, more than 25,000 of those babies are African, African-American, African-European, etc. Many Black parents, when deciding the names of their babies, want to find ethnic names that have significant meanings in Black culture.