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About BabyBoyNames.in

BabyBoyNames.in is a free website that helps parents and families find a meaningful name for their baby boy. You can browse names by letter, religion, god, meaning, language and rashi, save favourites to a shortlist and share them with family on WhatsApp.

How we write name meanings

For every name we show the meaning and origin most commonly used in India. Many names have more than one meaning, and families sometimes use a name in a slightly different way. Where a name is linked to a god, a saint or a story, we say so.

Rashi and numerology

Rashi is matched from the first sound of the name using the traditional Vedic naming chart. Numerology uses the Pythagorean method. Both are shown for interest, so please confirm with your family priest or astrologer if they matter to your family.

How our 1,08,978 names are put together

  • 1,423 popular names are names families use today, each with its own page.
  • 4,497 root-based names are formed the traditional way, by joining two Sanskrit, Arabic or Punjabi words with positive meanings (for example Gyan + esh = Gyanesh, “lord of knowledge”, or Abdul + Rahman, “servant of the Most Merciful”). We only use words for good qualities, gods, nature and blessings, and we remove any name that sounds odd or rude in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil or English. Each one is marked “In use” or “Rare / new”.
  • 3,514 spelling variants are the regional ways of writing a name (Kuldeep / Kuldip, Shekhar / Sekhar).
  • 99,544 two-part names follow the Telugu and South Indian custom of adding a blessing name such as Sai, Sri or Venkata, and the Muslim custom of names like Mohammed Ayaan.

We do not invent Christian or Biblical names. Every Christian name on the site is a real name from the Bible, saints or Christian tradition.

Photos

The baby photos on our homepage are free images from Unsplash, shared by their photographers under the Unsplash License. Thank you to them.

Suggest a name or correction

Know a beautiful name we have missed, or a meaning that needs fixing? Write to us at hello@babyboynames.in.