Nepalese names

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Please help me I need short simple male and female Nepalese names.
Full disclosure I am not naming a baby but need them for a case study ( long horrible essay). So suitable for say 30 year olds.
I don't want to resort to Tom and Jan as want to stay culturally appropriate but as I will probably end up writing the names a 1000 times I want simple and short.
Any help appreciated ! ( I'm now going to be told Tom and Jan are commonly used and fine in UK by Nepalese population aren't I ?)

Is there a reason why you can't google for Nepali names?

Ashish - male

forebears.io/nepal/forenames

Amita and Santosh

The commonest name I can think of is Bahadur, but it's often used as a middle name (eg Lal Bahadur Gurung)

I'm less sure for women, IIRC there were lots with the commoner Hindi line Laxmi

The commonest surnames are Gurung (by a mile!) Limbu Thapa and Rai

Just google them. There’s a huge crossover between Nepali / North Indian names so there are lots of choices.

Thanks I think it was the cross over which had confused me. The real names didn't come up on Nepalese name lists but now found on Indian. Honestly I know I'm over complicating this but you never know who marks you or how much they know! just my luck getting a name culturally wrong and the marker actually noticing. Thanks x

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Thanks I think it was the cross over which had confused me. The real names didn't come up on Nepalese name lists but now found on Indian. Honestly I know I'm over complicating this but you never know who marks you or how much they know! just my luck getting a name culturally wrong and the marker actually noticing. Thanks x

Most cultures are not separate and many overlap. Imagine a Venezuelan trying to list exclusively English names (not Scots, Irish, Welsh). A chunk of them would have other origins - from France to Saudi Arabia to Denmark....all sorts! I doubt you will get marked for a "culturally wrong" name. Cultures are not countries, there are no artificial borders. Everything seeps and mixes and bleeds into everything else. It is what makes them so much fun. By the way, Indian is also very hard to identify as India has a lot of different ethnic groups and cultures. North-east India in particular has a lot of Nepali and Tibetan people but also a whole host of other ethnicities. I'd worry about the content of the essay and meeting the brief, not a name. Good luck!

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