Indian names?

[Voadam]

Well, use of religious names isn't limited to pantheists or historically pantheistic cultures, Muhammad is the most common name among the 1 billion muslims today, christians tend to use saint names, hispanic catholics use Jesus, and I've known a few Jacobs, Aarons and Seths.

Then there is the Korean Joon, last name either Park, Lee and I think there is a third last name. Although I have no idea whether any of those are religiously derived.

Anyway, any other really common Indian names? The Kabalarian site provides dozens of individual names but no distinction between common or rare.

And yes, India is pretty big with its 1 billion people and dozens of cultural, language, and ethnic subgroups and multiple relgious traditions. However, I think I'll find authentic specifics from any of them useful.

Kobold A,

If you can find that site again that would be great.

 

[Skarp Hedin]

Well, these here are, I think, pretty common: (in no particular order)

Srinivas, Venkat, Vishnu, Krishna, Prasad, Sandeep, Sanjeev, Rajiv, Ajay, Ram, Raju, Vamsi, Reddy (usually not a first name, I think, but very common in names), Sudhakar, Sunil, Rao, Sai, Rajesh, Suresh, Nagesh, Naresh, Satya, Narayana, Narasimham, Karthik, Sreedhar, Srikanth, Chandra, and Gopal

Note that -ee- and -i- are often interchangeable -- they're the same sound, but north India usually uses -ee- and south India uses -i- -- it's just a spelling convention in the Latin alphabet. Also, these are all men's names. I've no idea on how common women's names are, since the vast majority of our employees are men. However, here are a few of their wives' names, but I've no idea how common they are:

Manjusha, Sneha, Sudha, Abha, Ajitha, Anitha, Amita, Mahalakshmi, Lakshmi, Surya, Vijaya, Jyoti, Sahithi, Sheela, Usha, Bharathi, Prasanna, Kalpana, Indira, Geetha, Pratibha, Roopavani, Roopa, Deepa, Hema, Saroja, Madhuri, Kavitha, Jaya, Jayashree, Sarala, Maya, and Vandana

I believe that Sudha, Lakshmi, Jaya, Maya and Vandana are pretty common, though.

Hope that all helps.

 

[Desdichado]

Voadam:
Anyway, any other really common Indian names? The Kabalarian site provides dozens of individual names but no distinction between common or rare.

And yes, India is pretty big with its 1 billion people and dozens of cultural, language, and ethnic subgroups and multiple relgious traditions. However, I think I'll find authentic specifics from any of them useful.

Right, Kabalarians does absolutely nothing to give you the names in context. No indication of what ethnic group the name comes from, which of the dozens of languages, many of them completely unrelated, that the name comes from, or how common or popular the name is, or what time period it comes from.

Still, it's a great resource...