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No. Name Origin 1: Kumar: Indian 2: Prasad: Indian 3: Chand: Indian 4: Singh: Indian 5: Lal: Indian 6: Sharma: Indian 7: Narayan: Indian 8: Khan: Indian 9: Ali ...
Meaning and tradition are two factors that greatly influence Indian baby names. When naming our first child 24 years ago, I quickly realized there is another huge factor at play: pronunciation.
Such names are roughly equivalent to the English or Welsh surnames Richardson or Richards. The Russian equivalent of 'Smith', 'Jones', and 'Brown' (that is, the generic most often used surnames) are Ivanov, Petrov, Sidorov , or 'Johns', 'Peters', and ' Isidores ', although Sidorov is now ranked only 66th.
The titles are given to certain individual of families in Kerala. Nair - Higher caste surname, encompassing several subcastes which includes High ranking martial castes like Pillai, Kurup, Unnithan, Menon, Nambiar, etc that formed the aristocracy and elite of traditional Kerala, which is also used by auxiliary, intermediate and middle-caste Nairs like Padamangalam Nair, Pallichan Nair, Vaniya ...
There is a widespread usage of a patronym (use of the father's given name as the last name). This means that the first name of one generation becomes the last name of the next. In many cases, the father's given name appears as an initial and when written in full (for example, on a passport), [33] the initial is expanded as last name. For ...
For ease of use, the [i] in front of the last name, and the ending _ve, were dropped. If the last name ends in [a], then removing the [j] would give the name of the patriarch or the place, as in, Grudaj - j = Gruda (place in MM). Otherwise, removing the whole ending [aj] yields the name of founder or place of origin, as in Lekaj - aj = Lek(ë).