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In Indian culture, names hold profound significance and play a crucial role in an individual's life. The importance of names is deeply rooted in the country's diverse and ancient cultural heritage. Names are also influenced by religion and <a href="/wiki/Caste" title="Caste">caste</a> and may come from <a href="/wiki/Indian_epic_poetry" title="Indian epic poetry">epics</a>. In Hindu culture, names are often chosen based on astrological and numerological principles. It is believed that a person's name can influence their destiny, and selecting the right name is essential for a prosperous and harmonious life. Astrologers may be consulted to ensure a name aligns with the individual's birth chart.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>'s population speaks a <a href="/wiki/Languages_of_India" title="Languages of India">wide variety</a> of languages and nearly every major <a href="/wiki/Religions_of_the_world" class="mw-redirect" title="Religions of the world">religion</a> in the world has a following in India. This variety makes for subtle, often confusing, differences in names and naming styles. Due to <a href="/wiki/Greater_India" title="Greater India">historical Indian cultural influences</a>, several names across <a href="/wiki/South_Asia" title="South Asia">South</a> and <a href="/wiki/Southeast_Asia" title="Southeast Asia">Southeast Asia</a> are influenced by or adapted from Indian names or words.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (May 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In some cases, an Indian <a href="/wiki/Birth_name" title="Birth name">birth name</a> is different from their official name; the birth name starts with a selected name from the <a href="/wiki/Hindu_astrology" title="Hindu astrology">person's horoscope</a> (based on the <i><a href="/wiki/Nakshatra" title="Nakshatra">nakshatra</a></i> or lunar mansion corresponding to the person's birth). </p><p>Many children are given three names, sometimes as a part of religious teaching. </p><p>Research suggests that many Indians have officially adopted caste-neutral last names<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to mitigate historical inequalities. Some of India’s most famous celebrities have changed their names. For example, <a href="/wiki/Amitabh_Bachchan" title="Amitabh Bachchan">Amitabh Bachchan</a> was originally named Inquilab Srivastava, <a href="/wiki/Akshay_Kumar" title="Akshay Kumar">Akshay Kumar</a> was named Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia, and <a href="/wiki/Dilip_Kumar" title="Dilip Kumar">Dilip Kumar</a> was originally named Muhammad Yusuf Khan. In many parts of India, the practice of name “doubling” is now wide-spread, i.e. a citizen adopts a “caste-neutral” last name for school, work and official settings, but retains a traditional name for personal interaction or to access certain state schemes. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Pronunciation">Pronunciation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indian_name&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Pronunciation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Cleanup plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-style ambox-Cleanup" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/40px-Edit-clear.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/60px-Edit-clear.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/80px-Edit-clear.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section may <b>require <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Cleanup" title="Wikipedia:Cleanup">cleanup</a></b> to meet Wikipedia's <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style">quality standards</a>. The specific problem is: <b>Confusing and non-standard pronunciation guide.</b><span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Indian_name" title="Special:EditPage/Indian name">improve this section</a> if you can.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">June 2019</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>When written in Latin script, Indian names may use the vowel characters to denote sounds different from conventional American or British English. Although some languages, like Kannada or Tamil, may have different vowel sounds, the ones used in most major Indian languages are represented in this table along with typical English transcriptions. </p> <table class="wikitable"> <caption> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>IPA </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Mid_central_vowel" title="Mid central vowel">ə</a>/<a href="/wiki/Open-mid_back_rounded_vowel" title="Open-mid back rounded vowel">ɔ</a> </td> <td>aː </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Near-close_front_unrounded_vowel" class="mw-redirect" title="Near-close front unrounded vowel">ɪ</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Close_front_unrounded_vowel" title="Close front unrounded vowel">iː</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Near-close_back_rounded_vowel" class="mw-redirect" title="Near-close back rounded vowel">ʊ</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Close_back_rounded_vowel" title="Close back rounded vowel">uː</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Close-mid_front_unrounded_vowel" title="Close-mid front unrounded vowel">eː</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Near-open_front_unrounded_vowel" title="Near-open front unrounded vowel">ɛː</a>/əɪ/ɔi </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Close-mid_back_rounded_vowel" title="Close-mid back rounded vowel">o</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Open-mid_back_unrounded_vowel" title="Open-mid back unrounded vowel">ɔː</a>/əʊ/ou </td></tr> <tr> <th>English transcription </th> <td>a </td> <td>a </td> <td>i </td> <td>ee </td> <td>u </td> <td>oo </td> <td>e </td> <td>ai </td> <td>o </td> <td>au/ou </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Furthermore, the letters used in English /t/ and /d/ that are used to represent the retroflex stops /ʈ/ and /ɖ/, are also used to represent dental stops /t̪/ and /d̪/ (as in Tenginkai or Rohit), especially when they occur in the onset of a word. As an example, the Indian name 'Dev' would not have its first consonant pronounced as in the American name 'Dave'. Similarly the name 'Tarun' would not have its first consonant sounded as in 'Tom'. </p><p>The letter 'h' is used to represent aspirated consonants. So, in the names 'Khare', 'Ghanshyam', 'Kaccha', 'Jhumki', 'Vitthal', 'Ranchodh', 'Siddharth', 'Phaneesh', and 'Bhanu,' the 'h' means the sound before it should be pronounced with a strong outward breath (see <a href="/wiki/Aspirated_consonant" title="Aspirated consonant">Aspirated consonant</a> for more on this). These names are more likely to be found in places that speak an Indo-Aryan language like Bhojpuri or Gujarati. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Names_by_culture">Names by culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indian_name&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Names by culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Assamese">Assamese</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indian_name&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Assamese"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Assamese names follow the <b>First name</b> – <b>Middle name</b> – <b>Surname</b> or <b>First name</b> – <b>Surname</b> pattern. The <a href="/wiki/Paik_system" title="Paik system">Paik system</a> used by various Assamese kingdoms, most notably the <a href="/wiki/Ahom_kingdom" title="Ahom kingdom">Ahom</a>, granted men titles depending on the number of paiks they could command, and these titles are often still used as surnames today. Titles such as <a href="/wiki/Bora_(surname)" title="Bora (surname)">Bora</a> (20), Saika (100), <a href="/wiki/Hazarika" title="Hazarika">Hazarika</a> (1000) imply that their ancestors commanded 20, 100 or 1000 men. The topmost ranks were granted titles such as <a href="/wiki/Phukan" title="Phukan">Phukan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Barua" title="Barua">Barua</a> and Rajkhowa. Some titles, such as Phukan, derive from <a href="/wiki/Ahom_language" title="Ahom language">Tai Ahom</a> rather than Assamese. These surnames can be held by people from any community. For instance, in <a href="/wiki/Binanda_Chandra_Barua" title="Binanda Chandra Barua">Binanda Chandra Barua</a>, Binanda is the first name, Chandra the middle name and Barua the last name, indicating his ancestors were high in the Paik system.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are some community-specific surnames such as <a href="/wiki/Gogoi" title="Gogoi">Gogoi</a> (<a href="/wiki/Ahom_people" title="Ahom people">Ahom</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Sharma" title="Sharma">Sarma</a> (<a href="/wiki/Assamese_Brahmin" title="Assamese Brahmin">Brahmin</a>) (ex: <a href="/wiki/Himanta_Biswa_Sarma" title="Himanta Biswa Sarma">Himanta Biswa Sarma</a>). Tribal communities such as <a href="/wiki/Bodo%E2%80%93Kachari_people" title="Bodo–Kachari people">Boro</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dimasa_people" title="Dimasa people">Dimasa</a> and <a href="/wiki/Karbi_people" title="Karbi people">Karbi</a> follow a similar naming scheme, although their surnames are generally clan names.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bengali">Bengali</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indian_name&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Bengali"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Bengali_name" title="Bengali name">Bengali name</a></div> <p>Bengali names follow <b>First name</b> – <b>Middle name</b> – <b>Surname</b> pattern, as seen with <a href="/wiki/Subhas_Chandra_Bose" title="Subhas Chandra Bose">Subhas Chandra Bose</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Bengali_Brahmin" title="Bengali Brahmin">Bengali Brahmin</a> surnames include <a href="/wiki/Acharya_(surname)" title="Acharya (surname)">Acharya</a>, <a href="/wiki/Banerjee" title="Banerjee">Banerjee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bagchi" title="Bagchi">Bagchi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bhaduri" title="Bhaduri">Bhaduri</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bhattacharya_(surname)" title="Bhattacharya (surname)">Bhattacharjee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chakraborty" title="Chakraborty">Chakraborty</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chatterjee" title="Chatterjee">Chatterjee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ganguly_(surname)" title="Ganguly (surname)">Ganguly</a>, <a href="/wiki/Goswami" title="Goswami">Goswami</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ghosal" title="Ghosal">Ghoshal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lahiri" title="Lahiri">Lahiri</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maitra" title="Maitra">Maitra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mukherjee" title="Mukherjee">Mukherjee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sanyal" title="Sanyal">Sanyal</a>, etc. A Brahmin name is often the name of the clan or gotra, but can be an honorific, such as <i><a href="/wiki/Chakraborty" title="Chakraborty">Chakraborty</a></i> or <i><a href="/wiki/Bhattacharya_(surname)" title="Bhattacharya (surname)">Bhattacharya</a></i>. </p><p>Common <a href="/wiki/Baidya" title="Baidya">Baidya</a> surnames are <a href="/wiki/Sengupta" title="Sengupta">Sengupta</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dasgupta" title="Dasgupta">Dasgupta</a>, Duttagupta, <a href="/wiki/Gupta" title="Gupta">Gupta</a>, Das-Sharma, and Sen-Sharma.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Bengali_Kayastha" title="Bengali Kayastha">Bengali Kayastha</a> surnames include <a href="/wiki/Bose_(surname)" title="Bose (surname)">Basu, Bose</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dutta" title="Dutta">Dutta</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ghosh" title="Ghosh">Ghosh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chowdhury" title="Chowdhury">Choudhury</a>, Roy Chowdhury, Ray, <a href="/wiki/Guha_(surname)" title="Guha (surname)">Guha</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mitra_(surname)" title="Mitra (surname)">Mitra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Singh" title="Singh">Singh</a>/<a href="/wiki/Sinha" title="Sinha">Sinha</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pal_(surname)" title="Pal (surname)">Pal</a>, <a href="/wiki/De_(surname)" title="De (surname)">De/Dey/Deb/Dev</a>, Palit, Chanda/Chandra, <a href="/wiki/Das_(surname)" title="Das (surname)">Das</a>, Dam, Kar, Nandi, Nag, Som, etc.<sup id="cite_ref-sharma2005discovery1_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sharma2005discovery1-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Odia">Odia</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indian_name&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Odia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Odia names follow the <b>First name</b> – <b>Middle name</b> – <b>Surname</b> or <b>First name</b> – <b>Surname</b> pattern. </p><p>Odia surnames come from caste based on human occupation. For example, the common surnames Kar, <a href="/wiki/Mohapatra" title="Mohapatra">Mohapatra</a>, and Dash (as opposed to Das) are Brahmin surnames. Similarly, <a href="/wiki/Mishra" title="Mishra">Mishra</a>, Nanda, Rath, Satpathy, Panda, Panigrahi, and <a href="/wiki/Tripathi" title="Tripathi">Tripathy</a> are all <a href="/wiki/Brahmin" title="Brahmin">Brahmin</a> surnames. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Mohanty" title="Mohanty">Mohanty</a>, <a href="/wiki/Das_(surname)" title="Das (surname)">Das</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chowdhury" title="Chowdhury">Choudhury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rai_(surname)" title="Rai (surname)">Ray</a>, Kanungo, Mangaraj, Bohidar, <a href="/wiki/Bakshi" title="Bakshi">Bakshi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Patnaik" title="Patnaik">Patnaik</a>, <a href="/wiki/Samantray" title="Samantray">Samantaray</a>, <a href="/wiki/Routray" title="Routray">Routray</a>, Mahasenapati, Srikarana, Chhotray and Das Mohapatra are <a href="/wiki/Karan_(caste)" title="Karan (caste)">Karan</a> surnames. Others are Samant, Singhar, Sundaraya, Jagdev, Baliarsingh, Harichandan, Mardraj, Srichandan, Pratihari, Paikray, Patasani, Parida, Samal, Sahu, Nayak, and Muduli. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Goan">Goan</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indian_name&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Goan"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Konkani_people" title="Konkani people">Konkani people</a> inhabiting Goa, and also Konkan regions of Karnataka and Maharashtra, use <b>First name</b> – <b>Middle name</b> – <b>Village name/Surname</b> pattern. Generally, the first name is followed by the father's name, though this is now mostly observed by Hindus, who are traditionally patriarchal.<sup id="cite_ref-pat_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pat-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Village names were used only after the arrival of the Portuguese, when the people migrated from their ancestral villages. A suffix <i>kar</i> or <i>hailing from</i> was attached to the village name.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Many of the originally Hindu residents were converted to Catholicism by the Portuguese. Almost all of the Konkani Catholics have Portuguese surnames like Rodrigues, Fernandes, Pereira and D'Souza.<sup id="cite_ref-catholic_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-catholic-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Catholic families belonging to the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Brahmin" title="Roman Catholic Brahmin">Roman Catholic Brahmin</a> (Bamonn) caste use <a href="/wiki/Lusophone" class="mw-redirect" title="Lusophone">lusophonised</a> versions of Hindu surnames like Prabhu, Bhat, etc.<sup id="cite_ref-Porbu_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Porbu-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Gujarati">Gujarati</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indian_name&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Gujarati"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Gujarati names follow a pattern of <b>Given name</b>, <b>Father's given name</b>, and <b>Surname</b>; for example, <a href="/wiki/Mohandas_Karamchand_Gandhi" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi">Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi</a>. After marriage, a woman takes her husband's patronymic as her new middle name. The surname is a family name, derived from place-names, trades or occupations, religious or caste names, or nicknames. Given names and their suffixes differ based on sex and religion.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In many Gujarati households, a paternal aunt has the honour of naming her brother's child.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Traditionally names were often borrowed from religion, but in modern times names are borrowed from literature, film, and politicians. Sanskrit <a href="/wiki/Tatsama" title="Tatsama">tatsama</a> names are also increasing as a source for names to the detriment of <a href="/wiki/Tadbhava" title="Tadbhava">tadbhava</a> and deshya names, especially amongst tribal groups. In modern times, there has also been the creating of <a href="/wiki/Euphony" class="mw-redirect" title="Euphony">pleasant sounding</a> but meaningless names, as well as the borrowing of foreign names among <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a> educated metropolitans due to <a href="/wiki/British_Raj" title="British Raj">India's history with Britain</a>. Mistry states these processes in name changes are due to social factors where members of the lower strata of Gujarati society adopt Sanskrit names in mimicry of higher strata, who must then create new names from native or foreign sources to maintain status. Another factor he states is the declining religiosity of modern generations.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMistry1982178–181_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMistry1982178–181-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Northern">Northern</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indian_name&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Northern"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>This naming custom is prevalent throughout the <a href="/wiki/Hindi_Belt" title="Hindi Belt">Hindi Belt</a>, and is also followed also by groups in this region who may not speak a Hindi-related language variety as their first language such as <a href="/wiki/Gondi_people" title="Gondi people">Gonds</a> or <a href="/wiki/Santal_people" title="Santal people">Santals</a>. Northern naming customs follow a standard pattern of <b>First name</b> – <b>Middle name</b> – <b>Surname</b>. 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-related name however, there are some caste-neutral surnames like <a href="/wiki/Kumar" title="Kumar">Kumar</a>. For example: <a href="/wiki/Bhajan_Lal_Sharma" title="Bhajan Lal Sharma">Bhajan Lal Sharma</a> (Bhajan is his first name, Lal is a middle name, and <a href="/wiki/Sharma" title="Sharma">Sharma</a> is a caste surname). Many women, especially in rural areas, take on the surname <i>Devi</i> (meaning Goddess) or <i>Kumari</i> (princess) when they are married (ex. <a href="/wiki/Phoolan_Devi" title="Phoolan Devi">Phoolan Devi</a>, known as Phoolan Mallah before marriage). Muslims in North India use <a href="/wiki/Arabic_name" title="Arabic name">Islamic naming conventions</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kannada">Kannada</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indian_name&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Kannada"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Kannada_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Kannada people">Kannada</a> names vary by region as follows. </p><p><a href="/wiki/North_Karnataka" title="North Karnataka">North Karnataka</a> follows the <b>First name</b> – <b>Father's first name</b> – <b>Surname</b> order. This system is also found in other parts of Karnataka.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Surnames are drawn from the names of places, food items, dresses, temples, type of people, platforms, cities, professions, and so on.<sup id="cite_ref-Names_have_interesting_surnames_in_north_Karnataka_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Names_have_interesting_surnames_in_north_Karnataka-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Surnames are drawn from many other sources. </p><p><i>Katti</i> as a suffix is used for soldiers while <i>Karadis</i> is related to local folk art. Surnames according to trade or what they traditionally farm include <i>Vastrad</i> (piece of cloth), <i>Kubasad</i> (blouse), <i>Menasinkai</i> (chili), <i>Ullagaddi</i> (onion), <i>Limbekai</i>, <i>Ballolli</i> (garlic), <i>Tenginkai</i> (coconut), <i>Byali</i> (pulse), and <i>Akki</i> (rice). Surnames based on house include <i>Doddamani</i> (big house), <i>Hadimani</i> (house next to the road), <i>Kattimani</i> (house with a platform in its front), <i>Bevinmarad</i> (person having a big <a href="/wiki/Neem" class="mw-redirect" title="Neem">neem</a> tree near his house), and <i>Hunasimarad</i> (person having a big <a href="/wiki/Tamarind" title="Tamarind">tamarind</a> tree near his house). A carpenter will have <i>Badigar</i> as a surname, while <i>Mirjankar</i>, <i>Belagavi</i>, <i>Hublikar</i>, and <i>Jamkhandi</i> are surnames drawn from places. <i>Angadi</i> (shop), <i>Amavasya</i> (new moon day), <i>Kage</i> (crow), <i>Bandi</i> (bullock cart), <i>Kuri</i> (sheep), <i>Kudari</i> (horse), <i>Toppige</i> (cap), <i>Beegadkai</i> (key), <i>Pyati</i> (market), <i>Hanagi</i> (comb), and <i>Rotti</i> (bread) are some other surnames. </p><p>In coastal Karnataka, the surnames are different in different regions. Surnames like Hegde and Hebbar belong to the Brahmin community, while other titles like <i>Ballal</i>, <i>Shetty</i>, and <i>Rai</i> are mostly used by the landed <a href="/wiki/Bunt_(community)" title="Bunt (community)">Bunt</a> community. Names in coastal Karnataka have both systems <b>Village name</b>–<b>Father's name</b>–<b>Personal name</b>–<b>Surname</b> and <b>Personal name</b> – <b>Father's name</b> – <b>Surname</b>. <sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Names in <a href="/wiki/South_Karnataka" title="South Karnataka">South Karnataka</a> follow <b>Village name</b> – <b>Father's name</b> – <b>Personal name</b> – <b>Surname</b>. Examples: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/H._D._Kumaraswamy" title="H. D. Kumaraswamy">H[aradanahalli] D[evegowda] Kumaraswamy</a>: <a href="/wiki/Haradanahalli" title="Haradanahalli">Haradanahalli</a> is his native village, Devegowda is <a href="/wiki/H._D._Deve_Gowda" title="H. D. Deve Gowda">his father</a>'s name, and Kumaraswamy is his given name.</li> <li><b>T[umkur] M[ahesh] Pranav</b>: <a href="/wiki/Tumkur" title="Tumkur">Tumkur</a> is his native town, Mahesh is his father's name, and Pranav is his given name.</li></ul> <p>For married women, it is <b>Husband's name</b> – <b>First name</b> or the opposite (ex. <a href="/wiki/Sumalatha" title="Sumalatha">Sumalatha Ambareesh</a>, where <a href="/wiki/Ambareesh" title="Ambareesh">Ambareesh</a> is her husband's name).<sup id="cite_ref-:0_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In South Karnataka, caste names are not common except among the higher castes. <a href="/wiki/Kannada_Brahmins" class="mw-redirect" title="Kannada Brahmins">Kannada Brahmins</a> have surnames like <i>Rao</i>, <i>Murthy</i>, <i>Poojari</i>, and <i>Bhat</i>. The title <i>Gowda</i> was a title given to any village headman, irrespective of caste, and was written as an appendage to the person's name. For example <a href="/wiki/Siddaramaiah" title="Siddaramaiah">Siddaramaiah</a>'s father belonged to the <a href="/wiki/Kuruba" title="Kuruba">Kuruba</a> community but was called Siddarame Gowda. Nowadays it is mostly used as a <a href="/wiki/Vokkaliga" title="Vokkaliga">Vokkaliga</a> surname. Most people in South Karnataka, regardless of caste, do not use caste surnames.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kashmiri">Kashmiri</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indian_name&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Kashmiri"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Kashmiri_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Kashmiri people">Kashmiri</a> names often follow the naming convention <b>First name</b> – <b>Middle name</b> (optional) – <b>Family name</b>. (For example: <a href="/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru" title="Jawaharlal Nehru">Jawahar Lal Nehru</a>) </p><p>Nicknames often replace family names. Hence, some family names like Razdan and Nehru may very well be derived originally from the Kaul family tree.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Malayali">Malayali</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indian_name&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Malayali"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Malayali surname includes Nair, Menon, Pillai, Nambootri, Panikkar, and Kurup. Some <a href="/wiki/Malayali" class="mw-redirect" title="Malayali">Malayalis</a> follow similar naming customs to Tamils and people in South Karnataka, using <b>Village name</b> – <b>Father's name</b> – <b>Personal name</b>. Some <a href="/wiki/Islam_in_Kerala" title="Islam in Kerala">Muslim Malayalis</a> also follow this system, though their first names follow the Islamic system. </p><p>Members of the Menon, Nair, and related communities often use their mother's house name or directly add their caste name.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For example, <a href="/wiki/K._Karunakaran" title="K. Karunakaran">Kannoth Karunakaran</a>, <i>Karunakaran</i> is his given name and <i>Kannoth</i> is his mother's house name. <a href="/wiki/P._K._Vasudevan_Nair" title="P. K. Vasudevan Nair">P. K. Vasudevan Nair</a>, <i>Vasudevan</i> is his given name and <i>Nair</i> is his caste surname.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most of the Malayalis write name as <b>Given name</b> – <b>Father's name</b> – <b>Father's father's name/house name/village name</b> – <b>Surname/caste title</b>. For instance, Shreelakshmi Dhanapalan Sadhu Kunjpilla; where Shreelakshmi is first name, Dhanapalan is middle name/father's name, Sadhu is grandfather's name, and Kujnpilla is surname/caste title. It might also be written as Shreelakshmi Dhanapalan S K. </p><p>Earlier times (until the 20th century) Malayali Christians (Nasranis) were bound by only Christian names and usually used the <b>Family/house name – Father's name – Baptismal name</b> naming convention. Nowadays, however, Christians have various naming conventions such as <b>Name – Surname – Father's Name</b> or <b>Name – Father's name</b><i> or </i><b>Name – Surname</b><i> or </i><b>Name – Father's Name – Grandfather's Name</b><i>.</i> It can be concluded that Syrian Christian names are <b>Patryonmic</b>. E.g.: <a href="/wiki/A._K._Antony" title="A. K. Antony">Arackaparambil Kurien Antony</a>, better known as A. K. Antony, here the policitcan's name is Antony while his father's name is Kurien, while his family name is Arackaparambil. During the 20th century some names were created by joining two or more syllables. For example, Abey (AB), Aji (AG), Bibi (BB), Biji (BG), Siby (CB) and so on. Today, several Syrian Christians name their children with popular Indian names like <a href="/wiki/Deepak" title="Deepak">Deepak</a>, Rahul, Neethu, <a href="/wiki/Asha" title="Asha">Asha</a> etc. But by the 21st century more biblical names began to reappear. Thus names like, <a href="/wiki/Isaac" title="Isaac">Isaac</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joshua" title="Joshua">Joshua</a>, <a href="/wiki/David" title="David">David</a>, <a href="/wiki/Saul" title="Saul">Saul</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ezekiel" title="Ezekiel">Ezekiel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Timothy_(name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Timothy (name)">Timothy</a>, appeared on the scene. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Marathi">Marathi</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indian_name&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Marathi"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Marathi_people" title="Marathi people">Marathi</a> people of Hindu religion follow a partially <a href="/wiki/Patronymic" title="Patronymic">patronymic</a> 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 name, family name/surname. For example: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mahadev_Govind_Ranade" title="Mahadev Govind Ranade">Mahadev Govind Ranade</a>: Here Mahadev is the given name, Govind is his father's given name and Ranade is the surname.</li> <li>Hridayan Chetan Thakur: "Hridayan" is a Sanskrit word that means "of the heart" or "pertaining to the heart." It is derived from the word "hridaya," which literally translates to "heart" or "center." In various contexts, "hridayan" can signify emotions, feelings, or the essence of something. The heart holds significant symbolism in many cultures, representing love, compassion, courage, and the core of one's being.</li> <li>Sunil Madhav Jadhav: Here Sunil is the given name, Madhav is his father's name and Jadhav is the surname.</li> <li>Jyotsna Mukund Khandekar: Here Jyotsna is the given name, Mukund is the husband's given name, and Khandekar is the surname of the husband<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Personal_names">Personal names</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indian_name&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Personal names"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Marathi Hindus choose given names for their children from a variety of sources. They could be characters from <a href="/wiki/Hindu_mythology" title="Hindu mythology">Hindu mythological</a> epics such as the <i><a href="/wiki/Ramayana" title="Ramayana">Ramayana</a></i> or <i><a href="/wiki/Mahabharat" class="mw-redirect" title="Mahabharat">Mahabharat</a></i>, names of holy rivers such as <a href="/wiki/Yamuna" title="Yamuna">Yamuna</a> and <a href="/wiki/Godavari" class="mw-redirect" title="Godavari">Godavari</a>, Hindu historical characters from Maratha or Indian history such as <a href="/wiki/Shivaji" title="Shivaji">Shivaji</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ashoka" title="Ashoka">Ashoka</a>, Marathi varkari saints such as <a href="/wiki/Tukaram" title="Tukaram">Tukaram</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dnyaneshwar" title="Dnyaneshwar">Dnyaneshwar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Janabai" title="Janabai">Janabai</a>, popular characters from modern Marathi literature, names of fragrant flowers for girls (e.g. <a href="/wiki/Mimusops_elengi" title="Mimusops elengi">Bakul</a>, Kamal/Kamla for <a href="/wiki/Lotus_flower" class="mw-redirect" title="Lotus flower">lotus</a>), senses such as <i>Madhura</i> for sweetness, precious metals such female name <i>Suwarna</i> for gold, heavenly bodies such as the Sun and the Moon, <i>Vasant</i> and <i>Sharad</i> for spring and autumn respectively, names of film stars (e.g. Amit after <a href="/wiki/Amitabh_Bachchan" title="Amitabh Bachchan">Amitabh Bachchan</a>) or sportsmen, and after virtues (e.g.,<i>Vinay</i> for modesty). Nicknames such as Dada, Bandu, Balu, Sonya and Pillu for males and Chhabu and Bebi for girls have been popular too.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Surnames">Surnames</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indian_name&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Surnames"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A large number of Maharashtrian surnames are derived by adding the suffix <i>kar</i> to the village from which the family originally hailed.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChopra198252_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChopra198252-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For example, Junnarkar came from town of <a href="/wiki/Junnar" title="Junnar">Junnar</a>, Waghulkar comes from the town of Waghul. Names like <a href="/wiki/Kumbhar" class="mw-redirect" title="Kumbhar">Kumbhar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sutar" title="Sutar">Sutar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kulkarni" title="Kulkarni">Kulkarni</a>, <a href="/wiki/Deshpande" title="Deshpande">Deshpande</a>, <a href="/wiki/Deshmukh" title="Deshmukh">Deshmukh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Patil_(surname)" title="Patil (surname)">Patil</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pawar" title="Pawar">Pawar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Desai" title="Desai">Desai</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Joshi" title="Joshi">Joshi</a> denote the family's ancestral trade or professions.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-IWI_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IWI-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Families of the historical Maratha chiefs use their clan name as their surname. Some of these are <a href="/wiki/Jadhav" title="Jadhav">Jadhav</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bhosale" class="mw-redirect" title="Bhosale">Bhosale</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chavan" title="Chavan">Chavan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shinde" title="Shinde">Shinde</a>, Shirke, <a href="/wiki/Mor%C3%A8_(clan)" class="mw-redirect" title="Morè (clan)">More</a>, Nimbalkar, <a href="/wiki/Pawar" title="Pawar">Pawar</a>, and Ghatge.<sup id="cite_ref-Dumont1980_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dumont1980-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Members of the numerically largest <a href="/wiki/Maratha_(caste)" title="Maratha (caste)">Maratha</a>-<a href="/wiki/Kunbi" title="Kunbi">Kunbi</a> cultivator class among Marathi people have also adopted some of the Maratha clan names, whether to indicate allegiance to the Maratha chief they served, or as an attempt at upward mobility.<sup id="cite_ref-O'Hanlon2002_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-O'Hanlon2002-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Punjabi">Punjabi</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indian_name&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Punjabi"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Punjabi Hindus generally follow North Indian naming conventions and Muslims generally follow Islamic naming conventions. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sikh">Sikh</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indian_name&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Sikh"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Sikh_names" title="Sikh names">Sikh names</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sikh_titles" title="Sikh titles">Sikh titles</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Sikhs" title="Sikhs">Sikh</a> names often have the following format: <b>First name</b> – <b>Religious name</b> – <b>Family name</b>. The religious name is always <i><a href="/wiki/Singh" title="Singh">Singh</a></i> for males and <i><a href="/wiki/Kaur" title="Kaur">Kaur</a></i> for females. Upon marriage, a Sikh woman will take the family name of the husband. The family name is sometimes used, but sometimes not. For instance <a href="/wiki/Ranjit_Singh" title="Ranjit Singh">Ranjit Singh</a>, where Ranjit was his first name and Singh his last name, was from the <a href="/wiki/Sandhawalia" title="Sandhawalia">Sandhawalia</a> Jat clan, but did not use it as a surname. However many do use caste/clan names, such as <a href="/wiki/Bhagwant_Mann" title="Bhagwant Mann">Bhagwant Singh Mann</a>, where Bhagwant is the first name, Singh the religious name and <a href="/wiki/Maan_(surname)" title="Maan (surname)">Mann</a> the Jat clan to which he belongs. </p><p>Many Sikhs append the name of their sub-caste (known as a <i>got</i> in Punjabi and <i><a href="/wiki/Gotra" title="Gotra">gotra</a></i> in Hindi) as their surname.<sup id="cite_ref-:03_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:03-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 40–41">: 40–41 </span></sup> A <i>got</i> is an exogamous grouping within a particular caste (known as a <i>zat</i> in Punjabi and <i><a href="/wiki/J%C4%81ti" title="Jāti">jati</a></i> in Hindi).<sup id="cite_ref-:03_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:03-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 343">: 343 </span></sup> A <i>zat</i> is an endogamous caste grouping, which contains <i>gots</i> under it.<sup id="cite_ref-:03_31-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:03-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 345">: 345 </span></sup> Some Sikhs are against the usage of <i>got</i> names as surnames because they think it promotes the <a href="/wiki/Caste" title="Caste">caste system</a> and the discrimination that comes from it, which is against Sikh doctrines.<sup id="cite_ref-:03_31-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:03-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 98">: 98 </span></sup> Sikhs tend to marry someone belonging to a different <i>got</i> as themself whilst belonging to the same <i>zat</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-:03_31-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:03-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page: 40–41">: 40–41 </span></sup> Since the second-half of the 20th century, some Sikhs from socially and economically-disadvantaged castes have adopted the gotra names of privileged castes as their surnames in an attempt to hide their original caste-background and seek upward social mobility.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Sardar</i> for males and <i>Sardarni</i> for females are sometimes prefixed as titles. A lot of Sikh first names can be used by both sexes.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_14-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tamil">Tamil<span class="anchor" id="Tamil_names"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indian_name&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Tamil"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Personal_name#Tamil_names" title="Personal name">Personal name § Tamil names</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Tamils" title="Tamils">Tamil</a> names usually follow this pattern: <b>Initial</b> (Village name) – <b>Initial</b> (Father's name) – <b>First name</b> – <b>Surname</b> (Example: <a href="/wiki/M._G._Ramachandran" title="M. G. Ramachandran">M.G. Ramachandran</a>, where the M stands for <a href="/wiki/Marudur,_Coimbatore" title="Marudur, Coimbatore">Marudhur</a>, and G stands for Gopalan, 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 <a href="/wiki/Patronymic#India" title="Patronymic">patronym</a> (use of the father's given name as the last name). This means that the first name of one generation becomes the last name of the next. In many cases, the father's given name appears as an initial and when written in full (for example, on a passport),<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the initial is expanded as last name. For example, a name like "R. Kumaresh" will be written in full as "or "Kumaresh Ramaiah", and refers to "Kumaresh son of Ramaiah". If Kumaresh then has a son named Vijay, then his name would be "K. Vijay" or "Vijay Kumaresh" as it would be in the West. There is also a general custom for Tamil women, after marriage to adopt their husband's first name as their new initial or new last name instead of their father's. A woman named K. Anitha / Anitha Kumaresh (Anitha daughter of Kumaresh) might change her name after marriage to S. Anitha / Anitha Saravanan (Anitha wife of Saravanan). However, these customs vary from family to family and are normally never carried on over successive generations. </p><p>Tamil Nadu, boasting numerous temples and a robust religious legacy, serves as a wellspring of inspiration for many Tamil names. These names often draw from the rich tapestry of Hindu deities, scriptures, and sacred texts. A prime example of this influence can be observed in names like "Arjun" and "Karthik," which resonate with the narratives and virtuous attributes associated with these divine beings.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Due to the influence of the <a href="/wiki/Dravidian_movement" title="Dravidian movement">Dravidian movement</a>, from the 1930s, most Tamils abandoned their surnames, both in India and nations like Singapore, due to the arising consciousness that these surnames were synonymous with their <a href="/wiki/Caste_system_in_India" title="Caste system in India">caste</a> identity, leading to social stigma.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>More common among women, making the patronym or husband name the last name is a custom adopted by people migrating to the West, who want to be called by their first names without having to explain Indian naming conventions. However, women frequently adopt their father's or husband's name, and take it for successive generations. </p><p>The various Tamil caste names include <i><a href="/wiki/Paraiyar" title="Paraiyar">Paraiyar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vishwakarma_(caste)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vishwakarma (caste)">Vishwakarma</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vishwakarma_(caste)" class="mw-redirect" title="Vishwakarma (caste)">Aachari</a>, <a href="/wiki/Konar_(caste)" title="Konar (caste)">Konar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Konar_(caste)" title="Konar (caste)">Idaiyar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Reddiar" title="Reddiar">Reddiar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Udayar_(caste)" title="Udayar (caste)">Udayar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yadav" title="Yadav">Yadhavar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iyengar" title="Iyengar">Iyengar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Iyer" title="Iyer">Iyer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pillai_(surname)" title="Pillai (surname)">Pillai</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mudaliar" title="Mudaliar">Mudaliar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thevar" class="mw-redirect" title="Thevar">Thevar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nadar_(caste)" title="Nadar (caste)">Nadar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chettiar" title="Chettiar">Chettiar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gounder" title="Gounder">Gounder</a>, <a href="/wiki/Naicker" class="mw-redirect" title="Naicker">Naicker</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Vanniyar" title="Vanniyar">Vanniyar</a> etc. The naming is therefore done in the fashion: Sunitha Ram Kumar Iyer. And hence they are known to only use initials besides their name except for when caste names are given more preference by certain families rather than the family name itself.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Telugu">Telugu</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indian_name&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Telugu"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Telugu_names" title="Telugu names">Telugu names</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Telugu_people" title="Telugu people">Telugu people</a> have a different naming style from the rest of India. The <b>family name</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Genitive_case" title="Genitive case">genitive case</a>, hence stands first, which is followed by <b>personal name</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This practice of placing family name first is also seen in <a href="/wiki/Chinese_people" title="Chinese people">Chinese</a>, <a href="/wiki/Japanese_people" title="Japanese people">Japanese</a>, <a href="/wiki/Koreans" title="Koreans">Koreans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vietnamese_people" title="Vietnamese people">Vietnamese</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hungarians" title="Hungarians">Hungarians</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Thus "<b>Family name</b> (surname), <b>Given name</b>" format is contrasted from North India where family name typically appears last or other parts of <a href="/wiki/South_India" title="South India">South India</a> where family names are little used. This might cause confusion to varying degree within India and rest of the world.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Occasionally, <a href="/wiki/Caste" title="Caste">caste</a> name is also suffixed at the end. For example, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, where Neelam is the family name, Sanjiva is the given name, and Reddy is the caste name. </p><p>Occasionally, some Telugu names may follow a slightly different convention where two personal names are given along with a family name. In the name, Aakula Anjaneya Prasad, Aakula is the family name and Anjaneya Prasad are the given names. </p><p>Muslims however have family names expressed at the end of their names.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Personal_names_2">Personal names</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indian_name&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Personal names"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Telugu people are often named after Hindu gods or goddesses.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_39-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Family_names">Family names</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indian_name&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Family names"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Nearly all Telugus possess family names called "<i>Inti peru</i>" (<abbr style="font-size:85%" title="literal translation">lit.</abbr><span style="white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span><span class="gloss-text">House name</span><span class="gloss-quot">'</span>), which are the most unique of all the linguistic groups in India.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Telugu family names are often named after a place. For example, <i>Pasupaleti</i> after Pasupaleru, <i>Kondaveeti</i> after <a href="/wiki/Kondaveedu_Fort" title="Kondaveedu Fort">Kondaveedu</a>, <i>Kandukuri</i> after <a href="/wiki/Kandukur,_Prakasam_district" class="mw-redirect" title="Kandukur, Prakasam district">Kandukur</a>, etc. Unlike western names in which the family name is more well known than the personal name, among the Telugu given names are how people are most widely known.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_39-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Telugu family names are often abbreviated and written, <i>e.g</i>., P. V. Narasimha Rao, D. Ramanaidu, etc., unlike western names where given name is abbreviated.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_39-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Indexing">Indexing</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indian_name&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Indexing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to <i><a href="/wiki/The_Chicago_Manual_of_Style" title="The Chicago Manual of Style">The Chicago Manual of Style</a></i>, Indian names are usually <a href="/wiki/Index_(publishing)" title="Index (publishing)">indexed</a> by the family name, with the family name separated from the other names by a comma, but indexing may differ according to the local usage and the preferences of the individual.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Global_Indian_influence_in_names">Global Indian influence in names</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indian_name&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Global Indian influence in names"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Expand_section plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-content" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="[icon]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/20px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/30px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/40px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="44" data-file-height="31" /></a></span></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs expansion</b>. You can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Indian_name&action=edit&section=">adding to it</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">November 2019</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>See <a href="/wiki/Indosphere" title="Indosphere">Indosphere</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sanskritisation" title="Sanskritisation">Sanskritisation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indianization_of_Southeast_Asia" class="mw-redirect" title="Indianization of Southeast Asia">Indianization of Southeast Asia</a> as well as <a href="/wiki/Indian_honorifics#Influence_on_other_cultures" title="Indian honorifics">Influence of Indian honorifics in Southeast Asia</a>, influenced the <a href="/wiki/Malay_styles_and_titles" title="Malay styles and titles">Malay</a>/<a href="/wiki/Indonesian_names#Honorifics" title="Indonesian names">Indonesian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thai_royal_ranks_and_titles" title="Thai royal ranks and titles">Thai</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Filipino_styles_and_honorifics" title="Filipino styles and honorifics">Filipino</a> honorifics. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indian_name&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Indian_honorifics" title="Indian honorifics">Indian honorifics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Place_names_in_India" title="Place names in India">Place names in India</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surnames_by_country" title="Surnames by country">Surnames by country</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indian_name&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span 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Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1967. 1967. <q>Most of the Brahmin families hereditarily enjoyed the patilki (village headmanship) or kulkarnigiri (village accountancy) of villages</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Proceedings+of+the+Session%2C+Volume+38&rft.date=1967&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIndian+name" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-IWI-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-IWI_26-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation journal cs1">"Their surnames". <i>The Illustrated Weekly of India</i>. <b>91</b> (3). Bennett, Coleman & Company: 12. July 1970. <q>Generally speaking, excepting names such as Kulkarni, Thackerey, Chitnis, Deshmukh, Deshpande, which are common to many communities in Maharashtra, a C.K.P. can be recognised by his surname.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Illustrated+Weekly+of+India&rft.atitle=Their+surnames&rft.volume=91&rft.issue=3&rft.pages=12&rft.date=1970-07&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIndian+name" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFIrina_GlushkovaRajendra_Vora" class="citation book cs1">Irina Glushkova; Rajendra Vora (eds.). <i>Home, Family and Kinship in Maharashtra</i>. Oxford University Press. p. 118. <q>The wada tells us of a story of three generations of a family called Deshpande who belong to the Deshastha Brahmin caste. ....Spread all over Maharashtra as a result of this process, Deshastha Brahmans held, in particular, the office of kulkarni.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Home%2C+Family+and+Kinship+in+Maharashtra&rft.pages=118&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIndian+name" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHassan1989" class="citation book cs1">Hassan, Syed Siraj ul (1989). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=lYSd-3yL9h0C&q=desai+deshastha+brahmin&pg=PA111"><i>The Castes and Tribes of H.E.H. the Nizam's Dominions, Volume 1</i></a>. Times Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9788120604889" title="Special:BookSources/9788120604889"><bdi>9788120604889</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2 April</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Castes+and+Tribes+of+H.E.H.+the+Nizam%27s+Dominions%2C+Volume+1&rft.pub=Times+Press&rft.date=1989&rft.isbn=9788120604889&rft.aulast=Hassan&rft.aufirst=Syed+Siraj+ul&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DlYSd-3yL9h0C%26q%3Ddesai%2Bdeshastha%2Bbrahmin%26pg%3DPA111&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIndian+name" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Dumont1980-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Dumont1980_29-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLouis_Dumont1980" class="citation book cs1">Louis Dumont (1980). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=XsOtRGdvIigC&pg=PA121"><i>Homo hierarchicus: the caste system and its implications</i></a>. University of Chicago Press. pp. 121–. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-226-16963-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-226-16963-7"><bdi>978-0-226-16963-7</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">13 May</span> 2011</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Homo+hierarchicus%3A+the+caste+system+and+its+implications&rft.pages=121-&rft.pub=University+of+Chicago+Press&rft.date=1980&rft.isbn=978-0-226-16963-7&rft.au=Louis+Dumont&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DXsOtRGdvIigC%26pg%3DPA121&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIndian+name" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-O'Hanlon2002-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-O'Hanlon2002_30-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRosalind_O'Hanlon2002" class="citation book cs1">Rosalind O'Hanlon (22 August 2002). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=5kMrsTj1NeYC&pg=PA17"><i>Caste, Conflict and Ideology: Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Low Caste Protest in Nineteenth-Century Western India</i></a>. Cambridge University Press. pp. 17–. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-521-52308-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-521-52308-0"><bdi>978-0-521-52308-0</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">13 May</span> 2011</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Caste%2C+Conflict+and+Ideology%3A+Mahatma+Jotirao+Phule+and+Low+Caste+Protest+in+Nineteenth-Century+Western+India&rft.pages=17-&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=2002-08-22&rft.isbn=978-0-521-52308-0&rft.au=Rosalind+O%27Hanlon&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D5kMrsTj1NeYC%26pg%3DPA17&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIndian+name" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:03-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:03_31-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:03_31-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:03_31-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:03_31-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:03_31-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBarrierDusenbery1989" class="citation book cs1">Barrier, Norman Gerald; Dusenbery, Verne A., eds. (1989). <i>The Sikh Diaspora: Migration and the Experience Beyond Punjab</i> (1st ed.). South Asia Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9788170010470" title="Special:BookSources/9788170010470"><bdi>9788170010470</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Sikh+Diaspora%3A+Migration+and+the+Experience+Beyond+Punjab&rft.edition=1st&rft.pub=South+Asia+Books&rft.date=1989&rft.isbn=9788170010470&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIndian+name" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRam2023" class="citation web cs1">Ram, Ronki (1 March 2023). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://openurl.ebsco.com/contentitem/gcd:176639809?sid=ebsco:plink:crawler&id=ebsco:gcd:176639809">"Understanding Diversity and Deras within the Sikh Panth (Community): Some Critical Reflections. | Journal of Sikh & Punjab Studies | EBSCOhost"</a>. <i>openurl.ebsco.com</i>. p. 151<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">29 September</span> 2024</span>. <q>In the latter half of the twentieth century another practice of hiding caste under the cover of adopted gotras (clan surnames) of the dominant/upper castes, especially among the lower castes, became quite popular. Gotras like 'Atwal', 'Gill', 'Sandhu', and 'Sidhu' are often being adopted by many 'ex-untouchables' in their desperate attempts towards upward social mobility.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=openurl.ebsco.com&rft.atitle=Understanding+Diversity+and+Deras+within+the+Sikh+Panth+%28Community%29%3A+Some+Critical+Reflections.+%7C+Journal+of+Sikh+%26+Punjab+Studies+%7C+EBSCOhost&rft.pages=151&rft.date=2023-03-01&rft.aulast=Ram&rft.aufirst=Ronki&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fopenurl.ebsco.com%2Fcontentitem%2Fgcd%3A176639809%3Fsid%3Debsco%3Aplink%3Acrawler%26id%3Debsco%3Agcd%3A176639809&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIndian+name" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHariharan,_S._A.2010" class="citation news cs1">Hariharan, S. 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Asian Educational Services. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/8120609999" title="Special:BookSources/8120609999"><bdi>8120609999</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Some+Contributions+of+South+India+to+Indian+Culture&rft.pub=Asian+Educational+Services&rft.date=1923&rft.isbn=8120609999&rft.au=Sakkottai+Krishnaswami+Aiyangar&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIndian+name" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFP.S._Sundaram1987" class="citation book cs1">P.S. Sundaram (1987). <i>The Kural</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Kural&rft.date=1987&rft.au=P.S.+Sundaram&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIndian+name" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:1-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:1_39-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:1_39-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:1_39-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:1_39-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:1_39-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBrown1857" class="citation book cs1">Brown, Charles Philip (1857). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=pnAIAAAAQAAJ&q=name"><i>A Grammar of the Telugu Language</i></a>. printed at the Christian Knowledge Society's Press. p. 209.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Grammar+of+the+Telugu+Language&rft.pages=209&rft.pub=printed+at+the+Christian+Knowledge+Society%27s+Press&rft.date=1857&rft.aulast=Brown&rft.aufirst=Charles+Philip&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DpnAIAAAAQAAJ%26q%3Dname&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIndian+name" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAgency1964" class="citation book cs1">Agency, United States Central Intelligence (1964). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=P6UfAAAAMAAJ&q=reverse"><i>Telugu Personal Names</i></a>. Central Intelligence Agency. p. 5.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Telugu+Personal+Names&rft.pages=5&rft.pub=Central+Intelligence+Agency&rft.date=1964&rft.aulast=Agency&rft.aufirst=United+States+Central+Intelligence&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DP6UfAAAAMAAJ%26q%3Dreverse&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIndian+name" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFVēlcēru_Nārāyaṇarāvu2003" class="citation book cs1">Vēlcēru Nārāyaṇarāvu (2003). <i>Hibiscus on the Lake Twentieth-century Telugu Poetry from India</i>. <a href="/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin_Press" title="University of Wisconsin Press">University of Wisconsin Press</a>. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=pjxyfqOmOKMC&dq=Telugu+names+family+name+last&pg=PR19">xix</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780299177041" title="Special:BookSources/9780299177041"><bdi>9780299177041</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Hibiscus+on+the+Lake+Twentieth-century+Telugu+Poetry+from+India&rft.pages=xix&rft.pub=University+of+Wisconsin+Press&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=9780299177041&rft.au=V%C4%93lc%C4%93ru+N%C4%81r%C4%81ya%E1%B9%87ar%C4%81vu&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIndian+name" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ABcIAQAAIAAJ&q=andhras"><i>SA Journal of Linguistics</i></a>. 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Retrieved on 23 December 2014. p. 26 (PDF document p. 28/56).</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Works_cited">Works cited</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indian_name&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Works cited"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin refbegin-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em"> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChopra1982" class="citation book cs1">Chopra, Pran Nath (1982). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=HAtuAAAAMAAJ"><i>Religions and communities of India</i></a>. Vision Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-85692-081-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-85692-081-3"><bdi>978-0-85692-081-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Religions+and+communities+of+India&rft.pub=Vision+Books&rft.date=1982&rft.isbn=978-0-85692-081-3&rft.aulast=Chopra&rft.aufirst=Pran+Nath&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DHAtuAAAAMAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIndian+name" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMaffei1882" class="citation book cs1">Maffei, Angelus Francis Xavier (1882). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/akonkanigrammar00maffgoog"><i>A Konkani grammar</i></a>. Mangalore: Basel Mission & Tract Depository.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Konkani+grammar&rft.place=Mangalore&rft.pub=Basel+Mission+%26+Tract+Depository&rft.date=1882&rft.aulast=Maffei&rft.aufirst=Angelus+Francis+Xavier&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fakonkanigrammar00maffgoog&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIndian+name" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPinto1999" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Pius_Fidelis_Pinto" title="Pius Fidelis Pinto">Pinto, Pius</a> (1999). <i>History of Christians in coastal Karnataka, 1500-1763 A.D</i>. Mangalore: Samanvaya Prakashan.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=History+of+Christians+in+coastal+Karnataka%2C+1500-1763+A.D.&rft.place=Mangalore&rft.pub=Samanvaya+Prakashan&rft.date=1999&rft.aulast=Pinto&rft.aufirst=Pius&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIndian+name" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Indian_name&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Bhupatiraju, Sandeep, Daniel Chen, Shareen Joshi and Peter Neis, “<a href="//doi.org/10.62355/ejels.23821" class="extiw" title="doi:10.62355/ejels.23821">Caste Aside? Names, Networks and Justice in the Courts of Bihar, India</a>“, <i>European Journal of Empirical Legal Studies</i>, Vol. 1(2) (2024):151–178.</li> <li>Kaushik, Devendra Kumar (2000) <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sites.google.com/site/opencatalogingrules/aacr2-chapter-22">Cataloguing of Indic Names in AACR-2</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110315175155/http://sites.google.com/site/opencatalogingrules/aacr2-chapter-22">Archived</a> 15 March 2011 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></i>. Delhi: Originals. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/81-7536-187-5" title="Special:BookSources/81-7536-187-5">81-7536-187-5</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.thebizdom.in/how-well-do-you-know-about-the-origins-of-some-indian-occupational-surnames/">"How well do you know about the origins of some Indian Occupational Surnames?"</a>. TheBizdom. 22 February 2020<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_name" class="mw-redirect" title="First name">First name</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Middle_name" title="Middle name">Middle name</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surname" title="Surname">Last name</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">By trait</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Diminutive" title="Diminutive">Diminutive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Double-barrelled_name" title="Double-barrelled name">Double-barrelled</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epithet" title="Epithet">Epithet</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Animal_epithet" title="Animal epithet">Animal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_people_by_epithet" title="Lists of people by epithet">Common</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plant_epithet" title="Plant epithet">Plant</a></li></ul></li> <li><a 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name">Unisex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virtue_name" title="Virtue name">Virtue</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">By life situation</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aptronym" title="Aptronym">Aptronym</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Birth_name" title="Birth name">Birth name</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Code_name" title="Code name">Code name</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maiden_and_married_names" title="Maiden and married names">Maiden and married names</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Necronym" title="Necronym">Necronym</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Posthumous_name" title="Posthumous name">Posthumous name</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Temple_name" title="Temple name">Temple name</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Placeholder_name" title="Placeholder name">Placeholder name</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Notname" title="Notname">Notname</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regnal_name" title="Regnal name">Regnal name</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slave_name" title="Slave name">Slave name</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Pseudonym" title="Pseudonym">Pseudonyms</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_pseudonyms" title="List of pseudonyms">list</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Art_name" title="Art name">Art name</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bug%C5%8D" title="Bugō">Bugō</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nickname" title="Nickname">Nicknames</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_nicknames" title="Lists of nicknames">list</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hypocorism" title="Hypocorism">Hypocorism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_monarchs_by_nickname" title="List of monarchs by nickname">Monarchs</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Nom_de_guerre" class="mw-redirect" title="Nom de guerre">Nom de guerre</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pen_name" title="Pen name">Pen name</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Heteronym_(literature)" title="Heteronym (literature)">Heteronym</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ring_name" title="Ring name">Ring name</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Shikona" title="Shikona">Shikona</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stage_name" title="Stage name">Stage name</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_stage_names" title="List of stage names">List</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_one-word_stage_names" title="List of one-word stage names">Mononyms</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Username" class="mw-redirect" title="Username">Username</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">By culture<br /><a href="/wiki/Surnames_by_country" title="Surnames by country">Surnames by country</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/East_Asian_cultural_sphere" class="mw-redirect" title="East Asian cultural sphere">East Asian</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amami_name" title="Amami name">Amami</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinese_name" title="Chinese name">Chinese</a> <ul><li><small><a href="/wiki/Courtesy_name" title="Courtesy name">Courtesy</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Art_name" title="Art name">Art</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Generation_name" title="Generation name">Generation</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Chinese_titles" title="Chinese titles">Titles</a></small></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_name" title="Japanese name">Japanese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korean_name" title="Korean name">Korean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manchu_name" title="Manchu name">Manchu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Okinawan_name" title="Okinawan name">Okinawan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naming_customs_of_Taiwanese_indigenous_peoples" title="Naming customs of Taiwanese indigenous peoples">Indigenous Taiwanese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vietnamese_name" title="Vietnamese name">Vietnamese</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Northern Asia<br />and Central Asia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kalmyk_name" title="Kalmyk name">Kalmyk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mongolian_name" title="Mongolian name">Mongolian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yakut_names" class="mw-redirect" title="Yakut names">Sakha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tibetan_name" title="Tibetan name">Tibetan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Muslim_world" title="Muslim world">Muslim world</a><br />and Western Asia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Afghan_name" title="Afghan name">Afghan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arabic_name" title="Arabic name">Arabic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijani_name" title="Azerbaijani name">Azerbaijani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bengali_name" title="Bengali name">Bengali</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Berber_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Berber name (page does not exist)">Berber</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coptic_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Coptic name">Coptic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mandaean_name" title="Mandaean name">Mandaean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pakistani_name" title="Pakistani name">Pakistani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pashtun_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Pashtun name">Pashtun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Persian_name" title="Persian name">Persian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sindhi_names" title="Sindhi names">Sindhi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Somali_name" title="Somali name">Somali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tatar_name" title="Tatar name">Tatar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turkish_name" title="Turkish name">Turkish</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Oceania" title="Oceania">Oceania</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_kinship" title="Australian Aboriginal kinship">Australian Aboriginal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fijian_name" title="Fijian name">Fijian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hawaiian_name" title="Hawaiian name">Hawaiian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/M%C4%81ori_naming_customs" title="Māori naming customs">Māori</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Sub-Saharan_Africa" title="Sub-Saharan Africa">Sub-Saharan Africa</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Akan_names" title="Akan names">Ashanti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo_naming_customs" title="Democratic Republic of the Congo naming customs">Democratic Republic of the Congo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Naming_conventions_in_Eritrea_and_Ethiopia" title="Naming conventions in Eritrea and Ethiopia">Eritrean and Ethiopian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ewe_language#Naming_system" title="Ewe language">Ewe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghanaian_name" title="Ghanaian name">Ghanaian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Igbo_name" title="Igbo name">Igbo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoruba_name" title="Yoruba name">Yoruba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zimbabwean_names" title="Zimbabwean names">Zimbabwean</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Europe" title="Europe">Europe</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_America" title="North America">North America</a><br />and <a href="/wiki/Australasia" title="Australasia">Australasia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albanian_name" title="Albanian name">Albanian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenian_name" title="Armenian name">Armenian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jewish_surname#Ashkenazi_Jewry" title="Jewish surname">Ashkenazi Jewish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basque_surnames" title="Basque surnames">Basque</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Estonian_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Estonian name (page does not exist)">Estonian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Finnish_name" title="Finnish name">Finnish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgian_name" title="Georgian name">Georgian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_name" title="Greek name">Greek</a> <ul><li><small><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_personal_names" title="Ancient Greek personal names">Ancient Greek</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Greek_Cypriot_name" title="Greek Cypriot name">Cypriot</a></small></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hungarian_names" title="Hungarian names">Hungarian</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Baltic_languages" title="Baltic languages">Baltic</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Latvian_name" title="Latvian name">Latvian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lithuanian_name" title="Lithuanian name">Lithuanian</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Celtic_onomastics" title="Celtic onomastics">Celtic</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cornish_surnames" title="Cornish surnames">Cornish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irish_name" title="Irish name">Irish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manx_surnames" title="Manx surnames">Manx</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic_name" title="Scottish Gaelic name">Scottish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Welsh_surnames" title="Welsh surnames">Welsh</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Germanic_name" title="Germanic name">Germanic</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dutch_name" title="Dutch name">Dutch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/English_name" title="English name">English</a> <ul><li><small><a href="/wiki/Naming_in_the_United_States" title="Naming in the United States">American</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/African-American_names" title="African-American names">African-American</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Canadian_name" title="Canadian name">Canadian</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong_name" title="Hong Kong name">Hongkongese</a></small></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_name" title="German name">German</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gothic_name" title="Gothic name">Gothic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Icelandic_name" title="Icelandic name">Icelandic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scandinavian_family_name_etymology" title="Scandinavian family name etymology">Scandinavian</a> <ul><li><small><a href="/wiki/Swedish_name" title="Swedish name">Swedish</a></small></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Romance_languages" title="Romance languages">Romance</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Catalan_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Catalan name">Catalan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_name" title="French name">French</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italian_name" title="Italian name">Italian</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Occitan_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Occitan name (page does not exist)">Occitan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portuguese_name" title="Portuguese name">Portuguese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roman_naming_conventions" title="Roman naming conventions">Roman</a> <ul><li><small><a href="/wiki/Praenomen" title="Praenomen">Praenomen</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Nomen_(Roman_name)" class="mw-redirect" title="Nomen (Roman name)">Nomen</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Cognomen" title="Cognomen">Cognomen</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Agnomen" title="Agnomen">Agnomen</a></small></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romanian_name" title="Romanian name">Romanian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_naming_customs" title="Spanish naming customs">Spanish</a> <ul><li><small><a href="/wiki/Naming_customs_of_Hispanic_America" title="Naming customs of Hispanic America">Hispanic America</a></small></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Slavic_names" title="Slavic names">Slavic</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_name" title="Bulgarian name">Bulgarian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Croatian_name" title="Croatian name">Croatian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Czech_name" title="Czech name">Czech</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Slavic_naming_customs" title="Eastern Slavic naming customs">Eastern Slavic</a> <ul><li><small><a href="/wiki/Belarusian_name" title="Belarusian name">Belarusian</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Slavic_naming_customs" title="Eastern Slavic naming customs">Russian</a></small></li> <li><small><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_name" title="Ukrainian name">Ukrainian</a></small></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kashubian_name&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kashubian name (page does not exist)">Kashubian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Macedonian_onomastics" title="Macedonian onomastics">Macedonian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Polish name">Polish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serbian_name" title="Serbian name">Serbian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slovak_name" title="Slovak name">Slovak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slavic_name_suffixes" title="Slavic name suffixes">Suffixes</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Indosphere" title="Indosphere">Indosphere</a> (<a href="/wiki/South_Asia" title="South Asia">South Asia</a><br />and <a href="/wiki/Southeast_Asia" title="Southeast Asia">Southeast Asia</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Balinese_name" title="Balinese name">Balinese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bengali_name" title="Bengali name">Bengali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burmese_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Burmese name">Burmese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Filipino_name" title="Filipino name">Filipino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indonesian_names" title="Indonesian names">Indonesian</a> <ul><li><small><a href="/wiki/Chinese_Indonesian_surname" title="Chinese Indonesian surname">Chinese</a></small></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Javanese_name" title="Javanese name">Javanese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khmer_name" 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