DH and the unpronounceable baby names

Ashwin
Vishal

How about
Arjun
Devrath
Arnab
Kumar
Uday
Roy/Ray/Rayan
Rohit
Veejay
Devin
Vade?

Alternatively, how about your baby’s last name reflect his dad’s heritage, and his first name reflects yours? That’s what we did. Works perfectly well.

Nikesh

Also out of interest OP what's your girls name shortlist? Looking for some inspiration and sounds like we have similar taste judging by your boys list

DH is an Arabic speaker and we had a similar debate about names. They had to work in both languages and be something that people could pronounce fairly easily when they saw the name. Some names didn’t work because the Arabic version and the transliteration into English didn’t quite match - there are some letters that don’t really have a match.

Congratulations.
We’re a mixed race couple. I’m white Scottish Italian and husband is South Indian. Our surname is long and not easy to pronounce for most people so we chose, I told him, that our baby would have a simple first name and also would be Italian so that she is aware of her Italian ancestry. He never had an issue with this. In laws wanted an Indian name but he told them they will made aware of the babies name when the time comes. They’ve never said anything about her name and suits her perfectly. A lot of our family/friends have very long names but shorten it down if that’s an option for you?

Prakash
Kumar
Manesh
Prasad

I’ve met Indian men called Roy and Jai, both good names in my opinion.

I'm Indian and totally agree with you OP. Also, and I'm not saying you have to be trendy or whatever, but the kind of names he's suggesting are rather old-fashioned and I haven't heard them for years, kinda like the Gary, Colin and Steve type British names. Most Indian names in the UK these days are a lot less harsh sounding and more easily pronouncable by non-Indians.

I like most of your list and agree with a pp about Ravi.

Also Kian (only recently realised its a Hindu name as well as Irish!) Ajay, Rishi, Khilan, Kishan, Jiten, Jai, Bhavin..?

Harish

Point made re pronunciation v spelling.

Wait until after the birth .. your dh may be more amenable at that point 😉. And you may have a girl anyway.

Kishan?

Love Ravi.

Also Rahi?

How about Abdhi?

I absolutely love the name Rohan though.

Another vote for Ravi

Parth on your DH's list sounds OK.

How about Ani? (Aniruddha)

I have a friend/colleague called Abhishek, shortened to Abhi - he's a lovely person so it has great meaning for me.

The anglo-indian families I know have boys named
Rohan & Ishan
Rohan & Nayan
Kiran
Shay
Nihal

I would stop worrying too much about pronunciation and just think about names you love yourself. Your dh may be more receptive if you're talking about your own likes and dislikes rather than some theoretical problem of the future.

Have you stopped being polite and said this is ridiculous, I’m growing this baby and am going to push it out my vagina or have my abdomen and uterus sliced open to get it out and have still been very sensitive to your cultural background, am giving the baby your surname and have agreed baby can have a name from your culture, and you don’t seem to care about finding a name that I like OR that will work for your child, you’re just sitting there thinking of you? Unless you can start thinking more like a partner and dad I am seriously reconsidering the surname- I’m growing the baby and I matter too, there is no good reason this child shouldn’t have my surname.

I think the name Johan is nice. It reflects your husbands culture but also if the child choses to fit more western sounding names, he could go by Jo

Isn't this pronounced 'Yo-han' though? It is in my DH's country.

I have got a boy called Dinesh and I know an aravinda shortened to Ravi.
Dh wasn’t too keen on Dinesh until he was born and then let me chose it and he suits it perfectly.

We had this problem. DH is white and I come from an ethnic background. I was really keen for a name that worked in both cultures but it needed to be a name that worked well with my culture. As you say, growing up in the UK, around your family, means the child will be exposed to his British heritage from an early age whereas my heritage will need to be emphasised as otherwise he won’t know anything about it, hence why I wanted a name that worked. However, DH was adamant it needed to be a traditional English name.

I proposed several names which DH vetoed. After I had the baby, he was so proud of what I just did he let me pick the name!

Ashwin
Remi

not much help OP - but we (both white British) found boys names really hard to agree on. Luckily we had girls, but the only boys name we ever agreed on was David. We'd have come to blows if we'd had 3 boys.