Personal name choices can act as a symbolic contract between the individual and various group interactions. Where immigrants are concerned, the literature suggests that immigrants decisions to either to keep or to discard their ethnic names are related to several factors. Lee and Ramakrishnan (2002), for example, analyzed survey data taken from Latino immigrants in America that correlates their personal name choices to language acquisition, immigrant status, religious affiliation, and ethnic solidarity. In my study, I looked specifically at the impact of African immigrant name choices, examining how these students either keep their names, change their names, create some kind of variation on them, and/or use different names. I spent nine weeks assisting the African Immigrant and Refugee Foundation (AIRF) with their after school program at High Point High School in Marylands Prince Georges County. The AIRFs rationale is to help African immigrants and refugees catch up with their peers as many of these students have spent time away from school because of domestic crises in their homeland countries. Through extensive field notes, informal conversations, and a follow-up survey, I collected data and coded it for themes that suggest what is embedded in immigrant name choices among these students. My analysis then explores immigrant name choices in relation to national and pan-ethnic identities, individual and group identities, education, and self-expression.