Indian / Welsh girls names - help please!

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Baby girl due any time soon and we haven’t decided on a name!

She will be of mixed Welsh and Indian (Punjabi Sikh but we’re not religious) heritage and I would love a short name that reflects both if possible?! Any ideas?!

Currently considering:
Nia
Devi
Ani
Saffir
Arian
Asha
Eira
Vina

Bingo. How about Bronwen. Broni, Bronnie or Bonnie as a nn?
Dum dum dum dum dum ... I need a Hero!

Bronwen is gorgeous name .

What about a variant of Rosheen? It's same pronunciation as the Welsh Rhosyn or Irish Roisin (all of these meaning Rose).

I'm a Miriam. I wouldn't recommend it. I'm black Irish (dark eyes, hair, olive skin) and people make a lot of erroneous and at times upsetting assumptions about my background.

Nia
Saffir
Asha

Rosheen/Roisin is nice but Rhosyn is not pronounced Rosheen.

In Welsh, Rh is one letter not two. It's like saying R and h at the same time and difficult if you are not mother tongue welsh.
Welsh words almost invariably have the stress on the last but one syllable.

The nearest anglicised pronunciation is ROSSin.

Seren ?

What about Anika? It includes the "Ani" from your list and I think spelt with only one 'n' (as opposed to Scandinavian Annika) has some Indian connection.

You could then use Ani as a nickname and still have your Indian link.

My little girl was born 10 days ago. We named her Eira and are pronouncing it Eye-ra as I am from South Wales. :-)

Funnily enough I happen to be Welsh/Indian Sikh. My name is Siân, I'm sure you're already aware it's a Welsh name but another reason my (religious Sikh) mother chose it was because there is a similar sounding Punjabi word so she knew it'd be easy for Indian relatives to pronounce

Congratulations. Beautiful name.

Some lovely names here!

Congratulations, @Pixiedust2017!

We won’t be going for anything with an Arabic/Muslim origin as, beautiful as some of these names are, it’s not the right fit for our culture and I think would lead to confusion there. Open to suggestions of Indian/Sanskrit derived/Sikh names though

I love names that end in -wen (Bronwen, Olsen etc, thanks Mike) but we already have a DS with a -wyn name so that’s out. I feel like it would be too matchy!

Interesting about Siân @embarrassed89, I myself have an English name that is awkward to pronounce in Punjabi which is kind of a pain. What word does it resemble?

Arwen is lovely! Such a shame you can't use it. It was on our list but too close to our surname.

Anya is also gorgeous - go for that

I've heard of Shaan in the Indian culture as a boys name.

Sian is really nice as I know a couple girls who are Indian English and have that name.

Nia is very sweet

Ani is very nice aswell

But Sienna was a girl in my year and again she was mixed

Anyway at the end of the day go with what you two are comfortable with. Xx

My DS has a little Saffir in his class, known as Saffi.