Whats your favourite Female Indian name

Bryan

Baby due in 1-2 days
Just wondering what your fav Indian girls' name is?
We have a names chosen but nothing written in stone until its registered

So how many sites give you the chance to perhaps give a new human life a name ...

Lets here your suggestions

Will update thread when the newest and youngest India Mike member arrives

Bryan

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volga_volga

Haven't you asked this already a few months back?

Gulab means "flower".

PS check your PM.

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Karma Queen

There was a little girl in my class called Anjali, which aparently means 'offering' or 'tribute'. She was absolutely the sweetest little thing, so I think I would have loved her name whatever it was!

Bryan

yeah i did ...but thought a rapid one line answers from everyone might just trigger a ...wow what a name

VV ...Any beautiful Rusian names
we were gonna call our first Larisa from the litle girl in Dr Zhivago ...but he turned out to be a boy...went off it now though

volga_volga

Anastasia, Alexandra (short: Sandra or Sasha), Irina (Irene westernised version), Olga (surprisingly well know in the UK because of Olga Kortut), Polina ("Pauline" westernised). in fact most of the modern Russian names that are on the tip of my tongue have very closed western equivalents... Larissa is more Greek to me than Russian... the most Russian name of all is Maria but it is not exclusively russian

some old Russian names like Praskovia or Lyudmila or Lybov ("love") are not that common. my mother's name is Valentina... not so common either.

Digital Drifter

Gayatri or Gayathri as spelled in the North and South respectively though I prefer Gayathri. For an explanation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayatri_Mantra

Lakshmi too, is a beautiful name albeit a bit common over India.

Alarna

I have a friend called Asha - it means hope.

Bryan

Some quality names ...particulalry Asha ad gayatri ...would obvioulsy be gaia for short ...nice ...

getgopi1

I like names that start in A - 'Asha', 'Aarti', 'Anjali', 'Amrita'... I knew this girl from back school who was Jain with a cute name. I can't remember the name though. Will consult with my buddies when I go there in November

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Apana

Bryan--

Check out The Penguin Book of Hindu Names and http://www.behindthename.com

Apana

Mandsaur

A friend in India recently had a daughter she named "Khushiyan" or "Khushie" (happiness) for short. That's my current favorite.

iyou

volga_volga wrote: Gulab means "rose", as in the color or the specific flower.

I like the name Purnima, which means "moonlight". You can spell it Poornima, but then there might be too much teasing because it looks like "porn" to some people.

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mercedes10

Hey Bryan! Congrats on the impending birth of a daughter. Hope all goes well.

I always liked the name Priya - which I believe means 'beloved'.

I'm sure you don't need me to tell you though that you'll need to be really careful about choosing a name that doesn't leave your child open to years of abuse at school! (and the subsequent hating of her parents! )

From the suggestions above, I'd say that Gayatri is just asking for school chums to shout 'GAY!' at her. Also, Khushie is, for obvious reasons I think, not a good name in English. Similarly, Poornima not only looks like 'porn' but will also result in being called Poo!!

I too like the idea of choosing an Indian name for a child (if I ever have one) but I would be inclined to choose something that is not TOO Indian (if that makes any sense). Afterall, your child might not develop the same affection for India as you and may hate you for being stuck with a very Indian name. I think names like Priya and Asha are safe as they cross the divide more - and still sound funky as British names. Please let us know what the final decision turns out to be!!

mercedes10

Apana - Thanks so much for that link. It's really interesting - and Bryan I'm sure you'll find lots of inspiration there!

Bryan

I have a friend called Priya ...yeah...lovely name
We have a name in mind but Im a libra and am always racked with indecision hahahaha

Yeah, everyname goes through the adaptation test the nickname test the rhyming test and the just plain stupid test ...so there will be no moonbeam trixybelles in my family