Nitin (pronounced Nithin)

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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

Prasad, Dinesh, Mohan - are very old fashioned.

Karan - will be pronounced as Karen by Americans so it will be a girl's name.

Choose names that will work well both in India and here. Make sure that even if americans shorten it, it will sound all right. So Ishaan can be shortened to Shan or Shawn. Siddharth can be shortened to Sid etc.

Secondly write the name out and ask an American to pronounce it. Ask their opinion about what it reminds them of. Write and also run a spell check to see if it changes it to something altogether different.

Some names
Rahul
Rohit
Jai
Shaan
Ishaan
Mihir
Armaan
Jayant
Suhail
Vardaan
Ashish
Safal
Vivek
Varoon
Tarush
Samarth
Arjun
Sudhir

I have several Karans/Kurrens in my family. Never been a problem.

Naveen, Rohan, Neil

Umesh
Pankaj
Mukesh

Anonymous wrote: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

Prasad, Dinesh, Mohan - are very old fashioned.

Karan - will be pronounced as Karen by Americans so it will be a girl's name.

Choose names that will work well both in India and here. Make sure that even if americans shorten it, it will sound all right. So Ishaan can be shortened to Shan or Shawn. Siddharth can be shortened to Sid etc.

Secondly write the name out and ask an American to pronounce it. Ask their opinion about what it reminds them of. Write and also run a spell check to see if it changes it to something altogether different.

Some names
Rahul
Rohit
Jai
Shaan
Ishaan
Mihir
Armaan
Jayant
Suhail
Vardaan
Ashish
Safal
Vivek
Varoon
Tarush
Samarth
Arjun
Sudhir

Anonymous wrote:Kiran and Kumar are two of my favorites.

Kiran sounds like a girl name.

Vikram and Jai are my faves.

Jay
Ravi
Rahul
Rohan
Sahil
Shail

Just bear in mind that names like Rohan or Ravi will be mispronounced as Ro-HAAN or RAAH-vi. Not sure if the solution is to spell them Rohun or Ruvi. Looks weird, but the mispronounciation is annoying.

Dhruv

Kumaran

I really like the names Kavi! Here is my not so short list.

Aarav
Aarnav
Aayan
Ayush
Arth
Darsh
Harsh
Kavi
Krish
Parth
Prish
Prem (Praem)
Som
Soham (Sohum)
Sparsh
Sthir
Zain

Anonymous wrote: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

Although I agree that Varun ought to be easy for non-Indians to pronounce, I know from personal experience that at least one non-Indian couldn't get it right for a whole school year. I don't know why.

Anonymous wrote:Adahy (Cherokee)

Bidzill (Navajo)

Pachu'a

Dear racist asshole, why must you do this on EVERY single thread looking for Indian names? It's not funny.

I really like Neil and Jai. Easy to pronounce as well.

ANything with the nickname Ro is my fave. I don't know why but I find that nickname sexy!