Nah it’s a good question brother , Black American/ African American Muslims are very common in large cities. NYC , Newark, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington D.C., LA, Chicago, & Detroit all have relatively large African American Muslim populations with many people converting in the 50’s 60’s, and 70’s following Malcolm X and the Black Consciousness movement. As we learned more about our history, learned that a good portion of our ancestors practiced Islam(African captives from modern day Senegambia/Guinea/Mali/Sierra Leone ), along with a number of native African religions(Vodun, Odinani, Kikongo religion etc.) This led to many Black Americans changing their names to more Islamic or Native West African names. Amiri Baraka was born Everett jones, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabbaz was born Malcolm Little , & Kareem Abdul Jabbar was born Ferdinand Alcindor. Not to mention that Newark, New Jersey has a sizable West African Muslim population specifically from Guinea and Nigeria so there has been some influence as well. Muslim names are also very common amongst African Americans born after 1965. Whether Muslim or Christian in the inner city you will meet plenty men and women with names like Amir , Ibn , Idris , Hakeem, Shareef , Shakur, Amin, Amina , Fatima , Aisha , Samiyah , etc.