Appendix:Indian given names

A list of given names used in India in their Anglicized spellings, but without gender or ethnic source (India has many native ethnic groups).

A

• Aakash
• Aaravamuthan
• Aarthi
• Aayush
• Aarya
• Aashika
• Aashish (also Ashish)
• Abha
• Abhas
• Abhigyan
• Abhijatya
• Abhilash
• Abhinandan
• Abhinav
• Abhinay (also Abhinaya)
• Abhinit (also Abhineet)
• Abhishek
• Adarsh (also Aadarsh)
• Adesh
• Adi
• Adipika (also Adeepika, Aadipika)
• Aditi
• Aditya
• Advik
• Aishwarya
• Ajay
• Ajey
• Ajith (Also Ajit)
• Ajeet
• Akhila
• Akhilesh
• Akshata
• Akshay
• Alikesh
• Alpesh
• Amal
• Aman
• Amani — spring
• Amar
• Ambar
• Amit
• Amol
• Amulya
• Anant
• Ananthu
• Anindita
• Animesh
• Anirudh
• Anish (also spelled Aneesh)
• Anitha
• Anjana — mother of Hanuman
• Anjali — mother of Hanuman
• Anjan
• Anjana
• Anju
• Anjum
• Ankan
• Ankita
• Anmol
• Annapoorna
• Anoop
• Anshul
• Ansuman
• Anshuman
• Anu
• Anubhuti
• Anup
• Anupam
• Anupama
• Anuradha
• Anurag
• Aparna — dry leaf
• Apoorva
• Aravind (also Arabind)
• Aravinda
• Archana
• Arihant
• Arindam (also Arindom)
• Arjun
• Arpita
• Arnav
• Arshad
• Arun
• Aruna
• Aryaki
• Aravind
• Asawari
• Aseem
• Asha
• Ashesh
• Ashish
• Ashu
• Ashvin
• Ashwath
• Ashwatthama
• Ashweeta
• Ashwin
• Ashwini
• Aswini — star (characteristics: fast and active)
• Atmajyoti
• Atul
• Atulya
• Ayush
• Avanindra
• Avanish
• Avinash
• Azhagu
• Anbuselvam
• Anbu
• Athi
• Anbukarsan
• Anand — happiness
• Ananda
• Anbarasi
• Anita
• Anusha
• Aravindra
• Avani — earth
• Aviral

B

• Babita
• Bandheka — the girl who stays in limits
• Bandheria — the intelligent
• Babu
• Babul
• Bablu
• Bala
• Balaram
• Balram
• Banti
• Basanti
• Beena
• Bhagya
• Bhagyashri
• Bhairavi
• Bhalchandra
• Bharani
• Bharat
• Bharath
• Bharathi — Saraswathi Devi
• Bhargavi
• Bhaskar
• Bhaskara
• Bhavani — Parvathi Devi
• Bhavesh
• Bhavna
• Bhooma
• Bhoomika
• Bhoominathan
• Bhushan
• Bibek
• Billu
• Bikram
• Bikshapathi
• Bimala
• Bina
• Bindu
• Bineeta
• Biran
• Bodhisatva
• Bhola

C

• Chaitra
• Chandana
• Chandni
• Chandra — moon
• Chandrakant
• Chandraprabha — Glow of moon
• Chandrashekhar
• Charu
• Chetan
• Chetana
• Chilkoja
• Chirasmita
• Chithra — wonder
• Chitrasen
• Chudamani

D

• Damodar
• Deepa
• Deepika — small light
• Deepti — light
• Deepak
• Deven
• Devendra
• Devi
• Dhanalakshmi
• Dhanush
• Dhanya
• Dhara
• Dharani — earth
• Dharma — rightful
• Dharshan
• Dharshini
• Dhwani
• Dikpal
• Dilip
• Dimitri
• Dipa
• Dipti
• Divya
• Draupadi
• Divyajyoti (also referred to as Dibyajyoti)

E

• Esha
• Eshwar — Lord
• Ehsaan
• Emaraan

F

• Fanishwar
• Fardeen
• Fatima
• Farheen
• Farooq
• Faisal
• faraha
• Fangs
• Feroz

G

• Gagana — sky
• Gajalakshmi
• Gajanand
• Ganesh
• Ganesha — Name of God
• Ganga
• Gauri
• Gayathri — Gayathri Devi
• Gayatri
• Geeta (also Gita)
• Geetika (also Gitika)
• Girish
• Godavari
• Gopal
• Gopinath
• Govind
• Greisha
• Grisha

H

• Haran
• Harendra
• Harika — loveable by all
• Harmeet
• Harpreet
• Harsha
• Harshan
• Hashmeet
• Hasini — sweet smile
• Hansa
• Hari — name of God
• Hetal
• Himanshu
• Himesh
• Hrishikesh
• Hrithik
• Hushmeet Diwan

I

• Ira
• Ish
• Isha
• Ishan
• Ishani
• Ishant
• Ishanika
• Ishvinder

J

• Jaagruthi
• Jagadish
• Jai — winner
• Jaikanth
• Jaishankar
• Jasraj
• Jayalalitha
• Jayakumar
• Jayanthi
• Jayashree
• Jayendra
• Jayesh
• Jaykishan
• Jayshree
• Jeet
• Jeevan
• Jekishan
• Juhi
• Jui
• Jumana
• Jyothy (also Jyothi) — light
• Jyoti

K

• Kadhir
• Kadhiresan
• Kamal
• Kamakshi
• Kamaraj
• Kanchana — gold
• Kandhan
• Kanthi
• Kanupriya
• Kapil
• Karan
• Karthee
• Karthika
• Karthikeyan
• Karunanidhi
• Kaushik
• Kavel
• Kaveri
• Kavitha
• Kavya
• Keerthi/kirthika — fame
• Keshav
• Keshavan
• Ketan
• Kiran
• Kishan
• Komal
• Komudi
• Krishna
• Krithika
• Kruthika — star
• Kush
• Kunalan Dava Rajoo
• Kumar — son, originally meaning "Prince", (often used as a suffix to a name). The Two syllable word (Ku=meaning "grief"+mar="to kill") actually denotes "killer of grief/sorrow" or otherwise meaning "gladdener/happiness-giver".

L

• Lakshmana
• Lakshmi
• Lalit
• Lalitha — Lalitha Devi (Parvathi Devi)
• Latha
• Lav
• Laya — grace
• Leela
• Leena
• Lekha
• Loganathan
• Lokesh
• Laila

M

• Madhav
• Madhavan
• Madhu
• Madhuri
• Madhurima
• Madhusoodhan
• Mahadevan
• Mahesh
• Mahendra
• Mahim
• Mahima
• Malathi — garland
• Manas
• Manav
• Mandira
• Mangala
• Mangesh
• Manish
• Manisha
• Manjula
• Manjunath
• Manohar
• Manoj
• Manpreet
• Mansha
• Maya
• Mayank — The Moon
• Mayuri
• Mayuresh
• Meeta
• Megha
• Meghna
• Meha
• Mira
• Mihir
• Mital
• Mitu
• Mohan
• Mohit
• Mouli — The head
• Mridul
• Mrinal
• Mrudula
• Mukul
• Murali
• Muralidharan
• Muralikrishna
• Murugan
• Murugesan

N

• Nagaraja
• Nagaveni
• Nagendran
• Nagesh
• Naintara
• Nakul
• Nameer
• Namratha
• Nandini
• Nandita
• Narayan
• Narayana
• Narayanan
• Naren
• Naresh
• Narendra
• Naveed
• Naveen — new
• Neal
• Neel
• Neelam
• Neeli
• Neelima
• Neema
• Neeraj
• Neeraja
• Neha
• Nehal — rainy / handsome / little tree / source of life (in arabic)
• Nihal
• Nihar
• Nihit
• Nikhil
• Nikhil
• Nilay
• Nilesh
• Nina
• Ninad
• Nisarg
• Nisha — Yamini
• Nishant
• Nisheet
• Nitin
• Nitish
• Nivedita
• Nupur
• Nutan

O

• Om
• Om Prakash
• Onkar

P

• Padma
• Padmanabh
• Palak
• Pallavi — first stanza of song (sets the basic tune)
• Parag
• Paramjit
• Paras
• Parna
• Parthasarathi
• Parvati
• Pompy
• Pooja (also Puja)
• Poornima
• Prabha
• Prachi
• Pradeep
• Prafulla
• Pragati
• Pragya
• Prahlad
• Prajakta
• Prajna
• Prakash
• Pramila
• Pramit
• Pramod
• Pran
• Pranav
• Pranay
• Pranil
• Praneel
• Prapanna
• Prarthna
• Prasad
• Prasanna
• Prashant
• Prathap
• Pratibha
• Pratik
• Pratiksha
• Pratima
• Pratyush
• Praveen
• Preeta
• Preetam
• Preethi — dear one
• Preeti
• Prem
• Prema
• Pritam
• Prithwish
• Priya — dear one Prakash (brightness/sun)
• Priyadarshini
• Priyamvadha
• Priyanka
• Priysabratha
• Protima
• Purnima
• Purnam
• Purvi
• Puganeshwary
• Puga

Q

• Qutubpratyush — first light of sun
• Qismat — luck

R

• Rahul
• Radhalakshmi
• Radhika
• Raghu
• Raghuram
• Rahul
• Raja — king
• Rajalakshmi
• Rajani
• Rajarajeshwari
• Rajaraman
• Rajasekhar
• Rajat
• Rajesh
• Rajnigandha
• Rajini (also Rajani)
• Raju
• Rajul
• Raka
• Rakesh
• Ram
• Rama
• Raman
• Ramachandra
• Ramakanth
• Ramakrishna
• Raman
• Ramani
• Ramdev
• Ramesh
• Rameshwara
• Ramu
• Rani — queen
• Ranjini
• Ranjit
• Rashmi
• Rasika
• Rathnakar
• Raveena
• Ritesh
• Ravi
• Ravikiran
• Rawan
• Rekha — line
• Renu
• Richa
• Rishab (or Rishabh)
• Rishad
• Rishi
• Rishikant — Muni
• Rishikesh
• Rohan
• Rohini — star (characteristics: beauty, glow, and artistic)
• Rohit
• Romil
• Roshini
• Rucha
• Ruchi
• Rudra
• Rugmani
• Rukmani

S

• Sabyasachi
• Sachin
• Sachita
• Sadhana
• Sagnik
• Saket
• Saketh — Rama (as in Saketha Rama)
• Samarchita
• Sameer
• Samir
• Sampada
• Samyukta
• Sandeep/Sandip
• Sanjay
• Sanjeev — one with long life
• Sanjeevini — the medicinal Parvatham (mountain) which saved
• Sankalp
• Santhanalakshmi
• Santhosh — happiness
• Sapan
• Sara
• Sarasvati
• Sarwagya
• Satya
• Satyanarayana
• Saumya
• Saurav
• Sayali
• Seetha
• Shailaja — Goddess Parvati Devi
• Shailendra
• Shalaka
• Shalmali
• Shamira
• Shamsunder
• Shankar
• Shanta
• Shanti
• Sharad
• Sharada
• Sharath
• Sharmeela (or Sharmila)
• Shashank
• Shashi
• Shaunak
• Shauni
• Sheela — Patthar
• Sheetal
• Shefali
• Shekhar
• Sheshi
• Sheshikala
• Shiladitya
• Shilpa
• Shilpi
• Shilu — Sheela
• Shirishgauri
• Shiva
• Shivam
• Shivani
• Shivankush
• Shivranjani
• Shobha
• Shraddha
• Shree
• Shreedhan
• Shreerang
• Shreya
• Shreyas
• Shridhar
• Shrinath
• Shrinivas
• Shruti
• Shubhada
• Shubhashree
• Shuili
• Shunmugha Priya
• Shweta (also Shwetha)
• Shyam
• Shyamala
• Siddharth
• Siddhartha — Vishnumurthy
• Sita
• Sitaram
• Smitha
• Sneha
• Snigdha
• Soheb
• Soma
• Sooraj — sun
• Soumen
• Soumitra
• Soumya
• Sowjanya — tenderness, goodness, and courtesy
• Sravan
• Sridhar
• Srihith — one with good heart
• Srikanth
• Srinath
• Srinivas
• Sripathi
• Sriram
• Subrahmanyam
• Subramani
• Subramanya
• Sucharitha
• Sudha
• Sudhakar — the moon
• Sudhir
• Suhani
• Sujit
• Suman
• Sumathi
• Sumeet
• Sunaina
• Sunayana
• Sunil
• Sunipa
• Suraj
• Surendhar
• Suresh
• Surya — sun
• Sushir
• sushruth

T

• Tajinder
• Tanvi
• Tapas
• Tara
• Tarun
• Thamizhselvan
• Thamizhselvi
• Theerth — thirst
• Tina
• Trilokesh
• Trivikram
• Trupti
• Trushar
• Tushar

U

• Ujwala
• Ulaganathan
• Uma — Parvathi Devi
• Umesh
• Urmila
• Urvasi
• Urvi
• Usha
• Utkarsha
• Utpala
• Uday
• Udaya
• Udayan

V

• Vagish
• Vaibhav
• Vaidehi
• Vaijayanti
• Vaishali
• Vaishnavi
• Vaman
• Vandana
• Vani — Saraswathi Devi
• Vanya
• Varad
• Vardhman
• Varna
• Varsha — Rain
• Varun
• Vasudha
• Vibhu
• Vidhi
• Vidhya
• Vidya
• Vijay
• Vijaya
• Vijesh
• Vikalpa
• Vikas
• Vikram
• Vinatha
• Vinay
• Vinod
• Vinu
• Viraj
• Vishal
• Vishnu
• Vishruth
• Viswanath
• Vivek
• Viveka

W

• Wasim
• Waqar
• Waajid

X

• Xavierdas (Indian version of Xavier)

Y

• Yadwinder
• Yamini — night
• Yamuna
• Yash
• Yashoda
• Yashovardhan
• Yashpal
• Yajur
• Yeshawant
• Yeshoda

Z

• Zeba