Indian / Irish names

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Any ideas for boys and girls names that will cross both cultures? Feel it's important for our child to inherit something from both of us. Ideas welcome

My children are also from a mixed Irish/Indian background and we tried like you to find names which worked in both cultures. What we found was that it's easy if you have girls - there's Tara, Nina and Anita for starters. It's much more tricky if you have boys. Neil works in both countries, but I don't like it personally. The only other ideas we could come up with were Indian names which could be shortened to English names eg. Robindra (Robin), Harvinder (Harvey), Harinder (Harry). I do know of one little boy called Alekshander, in an attempt to make his name sound both Indian and English.

As for me, I had two boys and after much debate they ended up with Indian first names and English middle names - but they use their middle names, so are known as Max and Sam!

Hope this helps.

amina is my fav name, arabic i think

Thanks everyone for their suggestions, liking quite a few of them - but we can't seem to agree. My partner is Neil, so that's out and he is stuck on Joseph / Yusef which has significance in both families, but I'm not keen on as 1st name (we are convinced it will be a boy) Girls names seem to be much easier.
Thanks,

My husband is indian, I'm Irish, we insist our kids names are both, and I've been able to make both my mom and his mom happy w/ the names we've chosen My son is Deven, My daughter Shyla, my future child will be Shaan if it is a boy, Ava or Ela if it is a girl, another boy options: Kiran, Cole another girl option: Ena, Kira, Kiara, Neala, Alisha

I am German, my husband Indian. We could not finds one that crossed both worlds AND we both liked but here are some possibilities:

Leila/Lela/Lila/Laila
Seren/Zarin
Meera/Mira/Amira
Mila/Meela/Milla
Kira/Kiri/ Kiara
Mallory/Mahlori

I thought Farrah was a nice suggestion.

I really liked Kiran/Ciaran/Kieran, that would have liked been the name if we had a boy.

I only have girls names! We ended up doing a Indian first name and a German/family name as middle. Her last name is Indian and I think this is important - this is not our last name but for instance Elizabeth Patel sounds off.

well I am asian and we used my middle name for dds'middle name so we are both called
Nazrine
It is a muslim name although it does have christian connotations

Tara crosses both cultures. It's a very Irish name meaning the 'hill' where the Kings sat and also means 'bright star' in Hindi (or Sanskrit).

I like both Neela and Nuala for a girl.

bob

Asha - means hope in sanskrit but sounds a bit irish too....