Rachana, Megha, Keerthana. Manav, if its a boy. But then Manav Madhav doesn't sound too good.
Maneka Gandhi's book isn't helping any. We have reached the stage where we think Pinky is a better name than any of those mythological ones. Ghatotkacha is out. So is Avalokitheshwari.
Suggestions ?
Emily? Amelie? ::horse grin::
ReplyDeleteWell, first off, how would it be "Manav Madhav" and not "Manav Nair" ?
I wouldn't mind being {Keerthana|Keerthi} {Madhav|Nair}.
how would it be "Manav Madhav" and not "Manav Nair"
ReplyDeleteOh, we decided to drop the caste thingy. Let my name carry on ! ;-)
my favorite boy names are siddharth cause it's rich and ved 'cause it's simple.
ReplyDeleteif girl; i'll get back to you on that...
yay!! fun!
any constraints or first letters as must have or such, while playing the name game?
ReplyDeleteWhy don't we know the sex of the kid yet?
ReplyDeleteI mean Rodrigo and Claudia know they're getting a girl ... Is it illegal in India? Or didja choose not to have it told to you? Or do you secretly know the sex of the kid, except you figured you'd lead us LJ folks on ... ;/
yup, it is officially illegal here
ReplyDelete"Megha" has a lovely nasal twang.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like the punchline for a cola ad.
ReplyDeleteboy, girl or twins...here you go.
ReplyDeleteP.S. laud the caste tag dropping move *clap clap clap*. personally always wanted to change my name from vijay menon to vijay chandra das(my dad's name is rama chandra das).
Mehneer if it's a girl. Means first drops of the monsoon rains. Mind you one of my friends used to change her name every city she went to... she has about 6 names. So even if the baby doesn't like it's name it can always change.
ReplyDeleteHmmm.... or maybe my friend just has a really dodgy past....
I really liked Siddharth. However Sindha feels its become very common nowadays. So have been forced to give it up. :-(
ReplyDeleteVed is nice, maybe a bit too simple though...
No real constraints. However we'd like to avoid names beginning with A and T/U/V/W/X/Y/Z, so as to not have the kid appear at the beginning or bottom of an alphabetical list, heh heh.
ReplyDeleteIt is, at least in Bangalore. The doc at Mallya hospital refused pointblank. He said he was liable to be prosecuted and the hospital could be shut down.
ReplyDeleteNo big deal, we can wait.
Thanks for the link. Actually we've had enough of websites and books. We'd rather ask a few friends/relatives and arrive at a good name if possible.
ReplyDeleteAlso avoid S. Way too many names out there that begin with S. Always cluttering up phone directories, making individual names difficult to find.
ReplyDeletePrahlad, Dhruv(I like this one a lot, ever-ambitious, and star-material) . If you have any bengali friends, then ask them, they have some beautiful names, Sangamitra, Mitra, Mita and Debashree are but examples.I have a penchant for Sanskrit names, those that you find in tales of yore...Agnidutta, Mitrasen etc...
ReplyDeleteMeesha Madhav N ;-)
ReplyDeleteYeah, we thought of that already. ;-)
ReplyDeletehey mad
ReplyDeletethe donts and a few dos
1. dont get a name starting with A to C cos ur knees tremble when u go first for the quiz
or ending with the last letter..cos u tend to sleep by the time ur time comes
2 dont give these names with initials. it is a mess with the passports and visas and half the time the kid will end up with offer letters addressing him or her with your name. I means its ok if its a guy but how would monica feel if it say" dear madhav . we welcome u to wellington ladies college...."
3. Most forms have names that have blocks that can take 10 to 12 words so thiruvengadathan or tripurasundari
4. Dont have a short name cos one mite like to have a shortened version and mite like his or her gf/bf to have the pleasure of a shortened name
so something like mona or sona is out... i mean no one will want to be called mo or so
5. try to rhyme the name with the surname. anything that rhymes with yadav will rhyme with madhav
6. make sure that the initials dont make a sills word
i mean j-lo is fine but pp can be made fun of and you know these brats in school!
Hahahaha :-D
ReplyDeleteThose are pretty good names, thanks. Will add them to the list (apart from Agnidutta & Mitrasen...)
ReplyDeleteI'm just going to write down my favourites without worrying about your rules. So here goes
ReplyDeleteTara
Kaya
Arundhati
Anurita (anurita madhac has a nice ring to it, methinks)
Moksh
Ayan
Prateek
Neel (i wasn't gonna write this, coz that was my son's name, but P's bro stole it anycase)
Jeet
Dheer
Gauri. Vishal.
ReplyDeletealsomadhav?
ReplyDeletei think its illegal in india. check this out
ReplyDeleteunless doctor wants to scan for medical reason
i mean with the female infanticide so high we dont want embrocides do we??
Neel is an interesting name. The others ain't bad either. Thanks for the list.
ReplyDeleteGood tips, thanks !
ReplyDeleteHmmm. Gauri is nice.
ReplyDeleteMehneer sounds quite beautiful. Perhaps a bit complicated, though. The kid might need to repeat it multiple times when asked her name. ;-)
ReplyDeletei love names : saw this post a little late : so here is my 2 cents
ReplyDeleteananya for the girl : whoops you dont want A ... but ananya has a nice repetitive click to it, and my mom feels A starting names are good till you get out of college(and she named me Vineeth!!!) cos then you always dont have to wait till the end to get your hallticket, markscard, etc. and you can always skim the top of any list
anukrit for the boy.
My 2 cents worth suggestions:
ReplyDeleteI'm mostly dropping the "kant" in my firstname ASAP, since I don't use it anywhere, and its just "excess baggage". I mean, my website doesn't have it, my friends know/call me "Ravi" and most people don't even know that my real name isn't that. My login has always been "ravi" on any multi-user system I've worked on, and so on, and so forth.
Also, its very hard for westerners to pronounce a name that long, and I recall as a kid I kept getting badgered for having the name that I do, including the bastardization of my name going to Ravi-$vulgar connotation. I don't suppose you want to knowingly put your kid thro' that. I'd like to have changed my name back in Madras, but thats not a reality, in India. They wanted me to do so many bizarre things that I figured it was simpler to deal with it later.
A name like "Siddharth" lends itself to "westernization" to say, "Sid" which isn't a bad thing, imho. If you ask me, its good to have some kind of western-world-compatible name, but not essential.
Its a wholly different issue whether or not you want your kid to be "western-world-compatibly" named ... but if you ask me, name-changes are not at all as easy as you probably think it is.
Better than Arun Subramanian Anantharama... as birdonthewire's ICICI post explains ;)
ReplyDeleteSome very Marathi names but see if you like any ....
ReplyDeleteUttara
Abha
Mukta
Gayatri
Mithila
and boys...
Aditya
Ankush
Chinmaya
Advait
Arnav
Sharang
Most of these are my nephews/nieces :)
was that meant to be ukj? haha
ReplyDeletehaha ok thanks i did check uke
ReplyDeletemaybe i shouldve checked the previous entries on the blog
"EZEKIEL GANESH YALEK RACHMIEL MACHINERY BORNSTEIN "??
then cross checked and found ukj on your friends list and not uke...so i put 1 and 1 together and arrived at 3
sorry about that ukj....please dont sue me
so here goes a few more thoughts shouldve appended it with the previous list
ReplyDelete1. make sure the name is anglizizable...er i mean
harish is harry or madhav is maddy
u know how the westernised punks in schools nowadays are
also helps if u r working in a global environment
2. dont use tongue twisters...
alzagappan or thiruvengadam is not pronouncable by 96.854% ppl around the world.
yo
ReplyDeleteer... i think i can see your friends but i cant see whom u r friends of....
I need my sleep. Yes, really.
ReplyDeleteThanks. Need to take a printout of this page and carry it home today :)
ReplyDeleteWe have a friend who's daughter is called Ananya. Anukrit is not bad, too. Thanks !
ReplyDeleteiMho, keep the Nair, serves as a good non-first-name sounding Surname. imagine 30 years from now, he and his wife would have to pick up the phone and say "Hello, you've reached the Madhavs' residence" or maybe his telepathic telephone receiver would do it for him, but still.
ReplyDeleteyour daughter would be known as Miss Madhav.
your doughter-in-law would be known as Mrs madhav.
I like Bengali names too. Dibyanshu / Divyanshu for instance - a little piece of divinity. Sounds very fairy-tale like to me like angeldust or a falling star.
ReplyDeleteer...what exactly is the problem ? I already have a Mrs Madhav in the house.
ReplyDeleteNow be a good mallu and name the kid something from :-
ReplyDeleteSoju
sijon
noji
jipu
jingu
baijon
bija
baija
shaijib
bujish
or any other two syllable combination including Ju, Sh and B
Shouldn't she be Mrs Nair?
ReplyDeleteOh, that helps a lot. Thank you very much.
ReplyDeletealso,... chackochan, babychan, manuchan, annamma, kuttamma, babykutty.. you get the principle.. right?
ReplyDeleteAnamika Madhav - that has a good ring to it. And it can be shortened/'westernized' to Anna Madhav, if the need arises.
ReplyDeleteVaruna Madhav. On second thoughts, may be not.
Madhuri Madhav is a mouthful.
Indulekha Madhavan - that is about as much seeped in mallu culture as one can get.
i like dhruv too
ReplyDeletefor girls; maitri, sindhu, diya, kushee, ritu.
ReplyDeleteif you don't mind a western sounding name, i like johanna for hope.
and if it helps/you are intrested in names as such...
my cousins who are indians now living in australia are called,
sunil that can be change rto neil (if he chose to be called that)
and sumanth; he's called monty.
i quite like the name raghu too.
Considering that the names have to sound good with 'Madhav', these ae my choices:-
ReplyDeleteGirl:Devi(ka), Renu(ka), Veena.
Boy: Uday,Jay,Dhanush.