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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Indian first names are not generally that hard to pronounce. It's surnames, particularly from southern India, that can be tongue-twisters for Americans. (for ex, "Balasubramanium.") I'd just name your kid what you want and move on. America is a melting pot. [/quote]

I don't think any Indian names are hard to pronounce, since most are spelled phonetically, but I disagree with your point. I think most Americans would stumble over my nephew Venkateshwar's name. And my daughter has a simple, two-syllable Indian name (Navya) that we thought that people would pronounce easily, but that folks stumble over simply because it is not familiar to them and contains a combination of syllables not common in English. We have to repeat it several times every time we introduce her, or spell it, and forget about somebody looking at it on paper and pronouncing it right. For baby #2, we definitely are polling more friends here about what they would and wouldn't be able to pronounce and remember![/quote]

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