English/indian baby boys names

[vikash1982]

Hi there - my wife and i are expecting a boy in December, and are hoping for some inspiration to find nice western/Indian names for boys which are short and sweet. Please help!

What sort of names do you like? English, Hindi, Urdu - something else?

Traditional you wait to find out the date/time of the baby's birth and then the pundit will give you an auspicious letter to work from.

I've always loved Tariq

Arun ?

We are hindus but born in the UK and so trying to find names that compliment both our backgrounds

Hari? I love that name.

Tariq is a nice name but usually traditionally Muslim name.
Arun.
Arjun.
Kiran
Krish
Kabir
Anand
Sanjay
Ayush
Samar
Rahul
Ishaan
Rishi
Rohit
Rohan
Nikhil

Hari is a v old fashioned name. I don’t think you’ll find people in India being named that any more.

Oh yes Rohan and Kiran are good calls.

Like Hari they both have English near-equivalents. (Rowan, Kieran & Harry).

@ChaBishkoot

Hari is a v old fashioned name. I don’t think you’ll find people in India being named that any more.

Quite popular for little indian-heritage boys in the U.K. & US, though!

Ishaan
Arjun,
Niven,
Kirin
Ajay,
Jayesh
Neel
Milan
Ravi,
Raj,
Tariq

We went with Rohan for our son, british born Hindus here too!

Like Arjun, Rahul as well

Vikram
Ashok
Kenan
Dev
Vijay
Sandip
and I love Sheehan but that might be deemed "out there".

Love Arun and Kiran

Ravi
Arit
Bodhi
Joshit
Adi
Kanan

Vivek is a nice name, I think that's Hindi in origin.

These are great comments, thanks so much , keep them coming!

I quite like the name Kiaan (which is like the irish/english version of Kian/Cian) - what do people think?

If "aa" is a long vowel then "Kiaan" would mean a different word in Irish than "cían", which is closer to "keen".
I hadn't seen it as an Indian name although I can see that a Bollywood star called Kiran Kapoor has named her son "Kiaan".

Jai
Vinod (Vinnie)
Raju
Aditya

I was going to say Kiran, Hari and Arun, which are lovely and have a good Indian and British ring to them. I see I’m a bit late! 😊

Aneel?

Kaelan
Kyan/Kian

Sachin or Sanjeev.

Abir
Akash
Ankur
Ashish
Deepak
Indra
Kavi
Shiv
Vijay

My friend recently called her son Niam which I thought was lovely. She is Hindi.