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Anonymous wrote:None. Just none.

I work with tons of Indian men. I really haven't run across one name that I like or translates well. Except for a couple guys who have defaulted to calling themselves Matthew.

Yeah. I feel similarly about most white, anglo girl names. Except for those that have taken to calling themselves Roopa, so much easier on the ears.

OP, you really should just name your Indian boy David or John...wouldn't want make PP uncomfortable.

I haven't seen Kirin before, only Kiran. You'd probably get, "Oh, like the Japanese beer?"

Kiran's a great name, though.

Anonymous wrote:None. Just none.

I work with tons of Indian men. I really haven't run across one name that I like or translates well. Except for a couple guys who have defaulted to calling themselves Matthew.

I like Rishit. It's kinda like being a boy named Sue. You have to get tough or die.

Anonymous wrote:OP here - thank you so much everyone! These are really great names. We would not have thought of the Anil/Anal and Vijay/Vajayjay issues, so thanks so much for that We really like Kirin, Milan, and Rohan. Thanks again.

You can't go wrong with those names, OP. You have some great choices!

OP here - thank you so much everyone! These are really great names. We would not have thought of the Anil/Anal and Vijay/Vajayjay issues, so thanks so much for that We really like Kirin, Milan, and Rohan. Thanks again.

Neil
Dev
Kabir
Varun
Rohan (seems to be very popular around now)
Vedant/Ved
Arya

We named our son Avinash, and non Indians seem to get it fairly easily.

Vinay
Tejas
Vicrim
Sami
Ajit
Ajay
Rajesh or Rajesh and call him Raj

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.

This. While I understand why people can't properly pronounce my Indian name, it's Anglicization is spelled exactly like a very common anglo male nickname. And I'm perfectly happy to go by that mispronunciation. But people come up with the absolute weirdest things (including adding letters or changing their order). People are just going to mispronounce names their not familiar with.

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.

Love Kiran and love Krishna.

Damian
Krishna

Anonymous wrote:None. Just none.

I work with tons of Indian men. I really haven't run across one name that I like or translates well. Except for a couple guys who have defaulted to calling themselves Matthew.

I would like to apologize for this PP on behalf of all people who were born in the US, whose ancestors came from Europe, and who are not ignorant fools.

Kabir

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!

Anonymous wrote:None. Just none.

I work with tons of Indian men. I really haven't run across one name that I like or translates well. Except for a couple guys who have defaulted to calling themselves Matthew.

Yeah. I feel similarly about most white, anglo girl names. Except for those that have taken to calling themselves Roopa, so much easier on the ears.

OP, you really should just name your Indian boy David or John...wouldn't want make PP uncomfortable.