Indian boy names

[Anonymous]

Rohan is my favorite. Although people will call him Ro-han. Think of the ending, han sounding like hand without the d. Also, I'm not a fan of Lord of the Rings, but apparently there's a land of Rohan mentioned.

It's a great name though- people will mess up just about any name that isn't Mary, or John, etc. go with what you like!

[Anonymous]

Rohan is a great name!

[Anonymous]

I second Kiran. Everyone can pronounce it.

If you name your kid Anil, you can always spell it "Aneel"

Whatever you do, don't make up a name. That seems to be the Indian/South Asian trend these days. Everyone wants to make up a "new" name so their kid is different and special. (ex: Aiden, Bayden, Cayden, Jayden, etc.) There are so many good names out there!

Do people pronounce it that way? In our family it rhymes with "funnel." Which non-Indians will never get. (Same with Ajay (UH-jay), Amir (Ummer), Ashok, etc.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We named our daughter Kiran and you'd be surprised how many times people mispronounce it! Ki-ran (long I, sounds like a species of dinosaur or something). Lol. Doesn't bother me but my point is you won't completely eliminate mispronunciation ever, the best you can do is try to bring it down to a level that's acceptable to you.

Why did you give your daughter a boys name?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We named our daughter Kiran and you'd be surprised how many times people mispronounce it! Ki-ran (long I, sounds like a species of dinosaur or something). Lol. Doesn't bother me but my point is you won't completely eliminate mispronunciation ever, the best you can do is try to bring it down to a level that's acceptable to you.

Why did you give your daughter a boys name?

I thought that Kiran was also a girls' name?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We named our daughter Kiran and you'd be surprised how many times people mispronounce it! Ki-ran (long I, sounds like a species of dinosaur or something). Lol. Doesn't bother me but my point is you won't completely eliminate mispronunciation ever, the best you can do is try to bring it down to a level that's acceptable to you.

Why did you give your daughter a boys name?

I thought that Kiran was also a girls' name?

Yes it is a girls name as well.

[Anonymous]

Kiran is like Kamal - it's a unisex name.

And Anil is usually pronounced 'uh-neel'.

[Anonymous]

OP, I love Kiran and Rohan (and Dev). When I hear the name Milan, I think more Eastern European than Indian, but I still like the name.

[Anonymous]

Mehul
Avi
Mukul
Gautum

[Anonymous]

Here are some simple, straightforward ones as well, which are both easy for non-Indians to pronounce but also great as Indian names:

Rishi
Jai
Prasad
Varun
Abhinav
Kartik/Karthik
Vinay (not Vijay, Vinay)
Karan (not Kiran, Karan)
Dinesh
Manav
Vinod
Mohan

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The problem with Navin is that people will never know... Is it "Na-VEEn" or "NAH-vin" etc. I like the names Arjun, Arjaan, Roshan, Akash.

So spell it "Naveen." That's how I see it spelled most times anyway.

[Anonymous]

Neil

[Anonymous]

I really like Naveen

[Anonymous]

I really like Arjun/Arjuna and Ruhan.

[Anonymous]

Anshul