Indian Names, Baby base on Culture— WebConte
Indian names are based on a variety of systems and naming conventions, which vary from region to region. Names are also influenced by religion and caste and may come from epics. India’s population speaks a wide variety of languages and nearly every major religion in the world has a following in India. This variety makes for subtle, often confusing, differences in names and naming styles. Due to historical Indian cultural influences, several names across South and Southeast Asia are influenced by or adapted from Indian names or words.
WebConte Provides Indian Baby Names Base on Culture here is List.
Names by Culture
- Bengali
- Gujarati
- Northern
- Kannada
- Kashmiri
- Malayali
- Marathi
- Sikh
- Tamil
- Telugu
Bengali
Bengali Brahmin surnames include Banerjee, Bagchi, Bhaduri, Bhattacharjee, Chakraborty, Chatterjee, Ganguly, Goswami, Ghoshal, Lahiri, Maitra, Mukherjee, Sanyal, etc. A Brahmin name is often the name of the clan or gotra, but can be an honorific, such as Chakraborty or Bhattacharya.
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Gujarati
Gujarati family names follow First name, Father’s first name, Last name. The last name is commonly a caste name. For example: Narendra Damodardas Modi — Narendra is his first name, Damodardas is his father’s name and Modi is his last name, denoting the Teli caste. Upon marriage, the wife takes on the husband’s first and last names as middle and last names respectively.
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Northern
Northern naming patterns follow a standard pattern — First name, Middle name, Surname. Many times the middle name will be appended onto the first name, or not exist at all. Sometimes middle name would even be father’s first name. The surname is most commonly a caste name however, there are some caste-neutral surnames like Kumar. For example: Manohar Lal Khattar (Manohar is his first name, Lal is a middle name and Khattar is a caste surname).
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Kannada
Kannada names vary by region as follows
North Karnataka surnames are drawn from the name of the place, food items, dresses, temples, type of people, platforms, cities and profession and so on.[8] Surnames are drawn from many other sources.
Katti as a suffix is used for soldiers while Karadis is related to local folk art. Surnames according to trade or what they traditionally farm include Vastrad (piece of cloth), Kubasad (blouse), Menasinkai (chili), Ullagaddi (onion), Limbekai, Ballolli (garlic), Tenginkai (coconut), Byali (pulse) and Akki (rice). Surnames based on house include Doddamani (big house), Hadimani (house next to the road), Kattimani (house with a platform in its front), Bevinmarad (person having a big neem tree near his house) and Hunasimarad (person having a big tamarind tree near his house). A carpenter will have Badigar as a surname while Mirjankar, Belagavi, Hublikar and Jamkhandi are surnames drawn from places. Angadi (shop), Amavasya (new moon day), Kage (crow), Bandi (bullock cart), Kuri (sheep), Kudari (horse), Toppige (cap), Beegadkai (key), Pyati (market), Hanagi (comb) and Rotti (bread) are some other surnames.
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Kashmiri
Kashmiri names often have the following format: first name, middle name (optional), family name. (For example: Jawahar Lal Nehru)
Nicknames often replace family names. Hence, some family names like Razdan and Nehru may very well be derived originally from the Kaul family tree.
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Malayali
Malayali surname includes Nair, Menon, Pillai, Nambootri, Panikkar and Kurup. Malayalis follow similar customs to Tamils and people in South Karnataka of village name, father’s name, personal name. Muslims also follow this system, though their first names follow the Islamic system. Malayali Christians usually use Western names.
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Marathi
Marathi people of Hindu religion follow a partially Patronymic naming system. For example, it is customary to associate the father’s name with the given name. In the case of married women, the husband’s name is associated with the given name. Therefore, the constituents of a Marathi name as given name /first name, father/husband, family name /surname. For example:
Mahadeo Govind Ranade: Here Mahadeo is the given name, Govind is his father’s given name and Ranade is the surname.
Jyotsna Mukund Khandekar: Here Jyotsna is the given name, Mukund is the husband’s given name, and Khandekar is the surname of the husband.
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Sikh
Sikh names often have the following format: First name, religious name, family name. The religious name is always Singh for males, example “Ravinder Singh Sahota”; and Kaur for females, example “Harmanpreet Kaur Bhullar”, “Harleen Kaur Deol” and “Manjeet Kaur Bhullar”. Since Sikhism opposes castes, they do not traditionally use family names. Upon marriage, a Sikh woman will take the family name of the husband.
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Tamil
Tamil names usually follow this pattern: Initial (Village name), Initial (Father’s name), First Name, Caste name (Example: E.V. Ramasamy, where E stands for Erode, and V stands for Venkatappa, the father’s name. Another example is R. Karthik, where R stands for Ravichandran, the father’s name). There is a widespread usage of a patronym (use of the father’s first name as the second name).
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Telugu
Telugu people have a different naming style from rest of India. The family name is a genitive case, hence stands first, which followed by personal name. This practice of placing family name first is also seen in Chinese and Hungarians.
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