How much a name can give about oneself is astounding. With name one can identify persons religion, caste, ancestor history, language he/she speaks and place from where the person belongs.
While the surname gives out most information about individual, it is very common in India not to have a surname at all. Second name would simply be fathers/husband name or could be name of a place, family house name or type of profession. It can even be name of a vegetable but that is very rare and only in very small community.
In Indian sense there are strict rules for the kind of name particular religion uses, like John Christian name or Ram an Hindu name, Ahmed a Muslim name. Common first name where I come, that is south of India, would be Kumar, Rahul, Satish, Rajesh, Vinod, for female Anitha, Nisha, Sunitha, Lakshmi, Smitha. Common surname, if they have, would be like Iyer, Pillai would mean he speaks Tamil for those who hail from Karnataka, Murthy, Desai, Gowda, Pinto, Lobo and Singh, Varma, Kapoor are from north of India.
Hindu names characteristically has religious or symbolic meaning. Like for example my name Bindya translates to "a colored point on the fore head", another example Lakshmi is the name of Indian goddess of wealth.
More over most have more than one name apart from the official name. I have three other name. The other name eventually not used and become obsolete.
Coming ages Bollywood has heavy influence on the naming a child. There is always a never ending quest to find more and more unique name among million names!
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Coming ages Bollywood has heavy influence on the naming a child. There is always a never ending quest to find more and more unique name among million names!
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Bindya
In Spain, people names are changing. Male names as Antonio, José, Francisco or Manuel have been replaced by David, Alejandro, Daniel, Pablo in the last years. In the case of girls, names as Antonia, Carmen, Josefa or Dolores are not so heard today, while Laura, Marta, Sara or Ana are growing popular. The eternal girl name María keeps in the firsts places in ranking.
Every Spaniard use to have one name (sometimes composed by two words) and two surnames (first one father' surname, second one mother' surname). The typical surnames include García, Rodríguez, Gutierrez or Ramírez. So, two examples of Spanish names can be Antonio García Rodríguez (male) and María Gutiérrez Ramírez (female).
A curious detail of compound names is the following: José María is a common name for boys, while María José is common for girls. In this case, both words José and María, are from Christian traditions, as many other Spanish names.
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In Czech Republic we are lucky are guess because world trends don´t really affect how parents name their children here. The most favourite names are matching with Czech traditional names.
Last year the most given names was for boys: Jakub, Jan, Matyáš, Adam, Tomáš, David, Lukáš, Ondřej, Filip and Vojtěch. That was the top ten. A few of other favourite names are still over the last ten years – Jiří, Daniel, Martin and Petr for example. For girls it was: Eliška, Tereza, Adéla, Anna, Natálie, Karolína, Nela, Barbora, Lucie and Kristýna. A few of other traditional names are: Veronika, Kateřina, Petra, Marie and Jana.
We have also lots of fascinating "old-fashioned" traditional names. Those aren´t common to use these days. In fact if someone today meet someone named like: Háta, Odolen, Chrudoš, Drahomíra, Boleslav or Ludmila I bet he will raise a corner of his mouth.
Alena
Last year the most given names was for boys: Jakub, Jan, Matyáš, Adam, Tomáš, David, Lukáš, Ondřej, Filip and Vojtěch. That was the top ten. A few of other favourite names are still over the last ten years – Jiří, Daniel, Martin and Petr for example. For girls it was: Eliška, Tereza, Adéla, Anna, Natálie, Karolína, Nela, Barbora, Lucie and Kristýna. A few of other traditional names are: Veronika, Kateřina, Petra, Marie and Jana.
We have also lots of fascinating "old-fashioned" traditional names. Those aren´t common to use these days. In fact if someone today meet someone named like: Háta, Odolen, Chrudoš, Drahomíra, Boleslav or Ludmila I bet he will raise a corner of his mouth.
Alena
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