South Asian parents - would you give your baby a non-South Asian name?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of "American" names that have South Asian roots. I know South Asian kids (with two South Asian parents) named Samantha, Keira, Sara pronounced Saara, Seira pronounced Sarah, Lily, Eva/Ava, Maya (don't do Maya), Rhea, Molly, and Mila.

I was born in India and lived in Mumbai till I moved to America in 1996. It was not unusual to hear of a Rhea, Maya, Mona, Monica, Lina, Mina, Soniya/Sonia, Anoushka in addition to all the usual Hindu, Christian, Muslim and Parsi names.

[Anonymous]

I say name your kid whatever you want.

If you want some Sanskrit names that sound like Elodie, there’s Alani and Amani.

Also I think Elodie is beautiful, but know that if you drop the E it’s an explicit word in Hindi.

[Anonymous]

Here are some ideas for names--open choices for absolutely anyone, regardless of what they look like: all people groups have value!

Matthew
Brett
Linda
Jeung Woo
Linh
Keisha
Scott
Natasha
Hahn
Babatunde
Keri Ann
Aboubacar
Sarah

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do you like about Elodie? Maybe there an Indian name that scratches the same itch?

Elodie reminds me of Anjali.

On what planet?

You know that an opinion can’t be wrong, correct?

Also:

3 syllables
Begins with a vowel
Ends in “ee” sound

[Anonymous]

We have two South Asian and Caucasion-mixed girls, with a South Asian surname. We didn't give the first a South Asian name and when it came time for the second, we decided to stay consistent so no one felt resentful later. We gave South Asian middle names to both.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of "American" names that have South Asian roots. I know South Asian kids (with two South Asian parents) named Samantha, Keira, Sara pronounced Saara, Seira pronounced Sarah, Lily, Eva/Ava, Maya (don't do Maya), Rhea, Molly, and Mila.

Since when are Molly and Mila South asian names?