DH and the unpronounceable baby names

I wouldn’t get hung up on spellings, pronunciation, teasing. We live in a very multicultural society these days with lots of different names. As he or she goes through life they can correct people if need be. People always go on about kids being teased for their names, but how much dose it really happen, especially these days with so many unusual names. The only time I ever saw anyone getting teased was when they had a name the same as someone famous e.g. Brad Pitt, I went to school with an Eddie Murphy, there was lots of Delerious jokes...

If your that worried give the baby an easy middle name or a name that can be shortened to something easy, then if they want as they grow up that can use their middle name of shortened version, I know lots of people who do this. I’ve done this with one of my DDs, her name isn’t English and is difficult for people to say and spell but there is 2 ways it can be shortened. She’s 7 and if people struggle she just says call my x instead.

Since your DH is getting defensive about his suggested names, I'd drop it all for now.

Pick a couple of names yourself, and immediately after the birth announce your chosen name for the baby, pointing out that it's traditional for the mother to make the final choice of name.

Don't get your family involved in choosing the name. You are right about Shlok not being a good choice!

Rohan
Surjan
Vishal
Anand

Pranav is a great name - I know a lovely boy named that, so it gets my vote. I also like Kiran, Aarush and Siddhant from previous experiences

I am of Indian descent and have jokingly had this discussion with my white British DP.
OP have you actually asked your DH the real reason for him refusing to budge? Which part of India is he actually from/descended from?
If you're 'familiar with Indian culture' then you surely know that there's no such thing as an 'Indian' name. India has over 50 different languages depending on state. Hindi is only the lingua franca in North India.
Most of the 'short and sweet' names are North Indian.
The names your DH is suggesting sound South Indian (the languages which while incorporating Sanskrit are mostly Dravidian based. While Hindi is mostly Sanskrit)
I am South Indian and most of of our traditional names while not hugely complicated are not as 'Westernised' as DP would like. But I'll be damned if I'm going to give up my culture that easily just for fear of being teased.
For all of the talk of being against racism on Mumsnet I'm surprised that this is still a big issue...

An hour or so after my DD2 was born, my DH unexpectedly announced that I could have the name I loved and that he had vetoed up until then. I hadn’t expected that! Although it turned out that name didn’t suit her, and she ended up with a name that had never even been on the shortlist!

Millan? It’s my nephew’s name. His dad is white and mum British Asian. I think the name is supposed to reference a meeting of cultures or something like that.

We had to choose names from two cultures. I came up with a long list of names from mine and DH came up with the same for English names. We both went through each other’s lists and vetoed the ones we couldn’t live with. Seemed to work out fine.

Anything that can be shortened to Sunny is cute. Sunil?

Ishaan is lovely.

I like your name ideas!

I know a Rohan and love the name!

Bhavik.

Jayan?

Nikesh?

Sohan?

I think it's a gorgeous name. Apparently it's quite an old fashioned Hindi name in India, but it works well in English (not harsh sounding)

Shelve the discussion until he's seen you give birth. Then just announce the baby's name.

Sorry to your DH, but there have got to be some perks to the whole pregnancy/childbirth shtick.

I sympathise. We agreed on names for my daughter but struggled to find names we both liked for our son . I wanted a Welsh name to reflect my heritage but my husband was concerned about pronunciation as we’re in England. He liked very traditional names I hated. We completely failed to find a name we could agree on and ended up with an 11th hour compromise as we had to register his birth at 6 weeks. This was more my choice on the basis I’d endured pregnancy and childbirth but definitely not a favourite name. It was actually quite stressful as we rarely disagree and probably caused more arguments than anything else before or since in our relationship.

I taught in a very 'white middle class school' - little boy named Sachin, absolutely accepted with no issues.

Another vote for Ravi or Kiran .
I also like Niren and Nayan from your list

My friend has two boys Romir and Rivaan I think they're both lovely names.

I teach a lovely Sujay and an equally lovely Ayush, I love both names by association!

Rupesh? It means Lord of beauty; Handsome - as my friend with that name likes to remind people!

Rohan is lovely, my cousin named her son this, as his Dad is Indian and he's ar eally nice little boy.

The names you posted he suggested aren’t hard to pronounce though. If someone can pronounce Christopher they can pronounce those names.

Are you looking for Indian names or Indian Hindu names?

My son has a Northern European father and both his names originate from that country, though his first name is a Hebrew variant. He’s so culturally British that I’m happy his name is a link to his paternal heritage, plus his name is very stand out. He’s gets a lot “that’s a cool name”