Ravi

Shashank

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

A lot of these are older names - like people who are 35-50 years old now.

+1 Except for Milan and Nikhil.
I would pick a name that's not too "ethnic".

Yes indeed. Wouldn't want anyone mistakenly thinking your DS was allowed to eat in his room or anything.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Akhil
Amar
Arjun
Dev
Idris
Indraneel
Kabir
Kamal
Kavi
Kiran
Milan
Navin
Nikhil
Pavan
Rajiv
Rohan
Samar
Sanjiv
Vijay


A lot of these are older names - like people who are 35-50 years old now.

Not the person who posted this, but I don't think this is true. I know kids under the age of 5 with most of these names.

You must know a lot of Indian kids. But seriously - you know a kid under 5 aged Rajiv?

LOL! My 4 month old was almost named Rajiv. We went with another variant on Raj instead. Had no idea it couldn't be used anymore??

So, I think the difference is that those of raised here in the US know the older names because those are the names we've grown up hearing (Rajiv is like Michael/Matthew), but we are not as aware of the newer names in India. I had only heard of maybe 2 or 3 of the names on the 2013 list: http://www.babycenter.in/l25008325/top-10-indian-boy-names-of-2013#/0

OP - that's a good source of names, I actually really like some of them.

Please write the name and make a non-desi pronounce it. A masculine name like Karan (Son of Kunti) gets pronounced Karen (like Donna Karen).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Akhil
Amar
Arjun
Dev
Idris
Indraneel
Kabir
Kamal
Kavi
Kiran
Milan
Navin
Nikhil
Pavan
Rajiv
Rohan
Samar
Sanjiv
Vijay


A lot of these are older names - like people who are 35-50 years old now.

Not the person who posted this, but I don't think this is true. I know kids under the age of 5 with most of these names.

You must know a lot of Indian kids. But seriously - you know a kid under 5 aged Rajiv?

LOL! My 4 month old was almost named Rajiv. We went with another variant on Raj instead. Had no idea it couldn't be used anymore??

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Akhil
Amar
Arjun
Dev
Idris
Indraneel
Kabir
Kamal
Kavi
Kiran
Milan
Navin
Nikhil
Pavan
Rajiv
Rohan
Samar
Sanjiv
Vijay

A lot of these are older names - like people who are 35-50 years old now.

+1 Except for Milan and Nikhil.
I would pick a name that's not too "ethnic".

??? My nephew's name is Nikhil and he's 8.

Anonymous wrote:

Akhil
Amar
Arjun
Dev
Idris
Indraneel
Kabir
Kamal
Kavi
Kiran
Milan
Navin
Nikhil
Pavan
Rajiv
Rohan
Samar
Sanjiv
Vijay


A lot of these are older names - like people who are 35-50 years old now.

Not the person who posted this, but I don't think this is true. I know kids under the age of 5 with most of these names.

You must know a lot of Indian kids. But seriously - you know a kid under 5 aged Rajiv?

Raj
Sanjit
Ajay
Amit
Rohit
Dharin
Adithya

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Akhil
Amar
Arjun
Dev
Idris
Indraneel
Kabir
Kamal
Kavi
Kiran
Milan
Navin
Nikhil
Pavan
Rajiv
Rohan
Samar
Sanjiv
Vijay

A lot of these are older names - like people who are 35-50 years old now.

+1 Except for Milan and Nikhil.
I would pick a name that's not too "ethnic".

The Milan I know is 36, the Nikhil I know is 50.

Regardless, these are all really nice names. When I hear older names, I think more along the lines of Jitendra, Chandra, Jagdish, Ganshyam, Vasant, Dinesh, Manish, etc.

Mahesh

Ajay

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Akhil
Amar
Arjun
Dev
Idris
Indraneel
Kabir
Kamal
Kavi
Kiran
Milan
Navin
Nikhil
Pavan
Rajiv
Rohan
Samar
Sanjiv
Vijay

A lot of these are older names - like people who are 35-50 years old now.

So? They're nice names.

Niranjan

Ankush