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{{short description|List of Indian names}}
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{{Culture of India}}
'''Indian names''' are based on a variety of systems and [[naming conventions]], which vary from region to region. Names are also influenced by religion and [[caste]] and may come from [[Indian epic poetry|epics]]. [[India]]'s population speaks a [[Languages of India|wide variety]] of languages and nearly every major [[Religions of the world|religion]] in the world has a following in India. This variety makes for subtle, often confusing, differences in names and naming styles. Due to [[Greater India|historical Indian cultural influences]], several names across [[South Asia|South]] and [[Southeast Asia]] are influenced by or adapted from Indian names or words.

For some Indians, their [[birth name]] is different from their official name; the birth name starts with a randomly selected name from the [[Hindu astrology|person's horoscope]] (based on the ''[[nakshatra]]'' or lunar mansion corresponding to the person's birth).

Many children are given three names, sometimes as a part of religious teaching.

==Pronunciation==
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When written in Latin script, Indian names may use the vowel characters to denote sounds different from conventional American or British English. Although some languages, like Kannada or Tamil may have different vowel sounds, the ones used in most major Indian languages are represented in this table along with typical English transcriptions.
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!IPA
|[[Mid central vowel|ə]]
|aː
|[[Near-close front unrounded vowel|ɪ]]
|[[Close front unrounded vowel|iː]]
|[[Near-close back rounded vowel|ʊ]]
|[[Close back rounded vowel|uː]]
|[[Close-mid front unrounded vowel|eː]]
|[[Near-open front unrounded vowel|æ]]
|[[Close-mid back rounded vowel|o]]
|[[Open-mid back unrounded vowel|ɔː]]
|-
!English transcription
|a
|aa
|i
|ee
|u
|oo
|ae
|ei
|o
|ou
|}
Thus 'Ekamresh' is pronounced /ɛkaːmresh/ The vowels /æ/ and short /ɔ/ of American English are absent in Indian languages and their use can often result in the mispronunciation of Indian names.

Furthermore, the letters used in English /t/ and /d/ that are used to represent the retroflex stops /ʈ/ and /ɖ/, are also used to represent dental stops /t̪/ and /d̪/ (as in Tenginkai or Rohit), especially when they occur in the onset of a word. As an example, the Indian name 'Dev' would not have its first consonant pronounced as in the American name 'Dave'. Similarly the name 'Tarun' would not have its first consonant sounded as in 'Tom'.

The letter 'h' is used to represent aspirated consonants. So, in the names 'Khare', 'Ghanshyam', 'Kaccha', 'Jhumki', 'Vitthal', 'Ranchodh', 'Thimmayya', 'Uddhav', 'Phaneesh', and 'Bhanu,' the 'h' means the sound before it should be pronounced with a strong outward breath (see [[Aspirated consonant]] for more on this). These names are more likely to be found in places that speak an Indo-Aryan language like Bhojpuri or Gujarati.

==Names by culture==
===Bengali===
Bengali names follow '''First name''', '''Middle name''', '''Surname''' pattern, e.g. [[Subhash Chandra Bose]].

[[Bengali Brahmin]] surnames include [[Banerjee]], [[Bagchi]], [[Bhaduri]], [[Bhattacharya (surname)|Bhattacharjee]], [[Chakraborty]], [[Chatterjee]], [[Ganguly (surname)|Ganguly]], [[Goswami]], [[Ghosal|Ghoshal]], [[Lahiri]], [[Maitra]], [[Mukherjee]], [[Sanyal]], etc. A Brahmin name is often the name of the clan or gotra, but can be an honorific, such as ''[[Chakraborty]]'' or ''[[Bhattacharya (surname)|Bhattacharya]]''.

Common [[Baidya]] surnames are ''[[Sengupta]], [[Dasgupta]], Duttagupta, [[Gupta]], Sen-Sharma'', etc.

[[Bengali Kayastha]] surnames include ''[[Bose (surname)|Basu, Bose]], [[Dutta]], [[Ghosh]], Choudhury, [[Guha (surname)|Guha]], [[Gain (surname)|Gain]], [[Mitra (surname)|Mitra]], [[Singh]]/[[Sinha]], [[Sen (surname)|Sen]], [[Pal (surname)|Pal]], [[De (surname)|De/Dey/Deb/Dev]], Jana, Palit, Chanda/Chandra, [[Das (surname)|Das]], Dam, Kar, Nandi, Sarkar,Nag, Som'' etc.<ref name="sharma2005discovery1">{{cite book|editor=S. K. Sharma, U. Sharma|title=Discovery of North-East India: Geography, History, Culture, Religion, Politics, Sociology, Science, Education and Economy. North-East India. Volume 1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JUozqyA2e90C |publisher=Mittal Publications|year=2005|isbn=978-81-83-24035-2|page=182}}</ref>

=== Goan ===
[[Konkani people]] inhabiting Goa, and also Konkan regions of Karnataka and Maharashtra, use '''First name''', '''Middle name''', '''Village name/Surname'''pattern. Generally, the first name is followed by the father's name, though this is now mostly observed by Hindus, who are traditionally patriarchal.<ref name="pat">{{cite book|last=da Silva Gracias|first=Fátima|url=https://archive.org/details/kaleidoscopeofwo0000silv/page/166|title=Kaleidoscope of women in Goa, 1510–1961|publisher=Concept Publishing Company|year=1996|isbn=9788170225911|pages=[https://archive.org/details/kaleidoscopeofwo0000silv/page/166 166 pages (see page:148)]}}</ref>

Village names were used only after the arrival of the Portuguese, when the people migrated from their ancestral villages. A suffix ''kar'' or ''hailing from'' was attached to the village name.<ref>{{Citation|last=Nāyaka|first=Puṇḍalīka Nārāyaṇa|title=Upheaval|pages=144|year=2002|language=en, kok|author2=Vidya Pai}}</ref>

Many of the originally Hindu residents were converted to Catholicism by the Portuguese. Almost all of the Konkani Catholics have Portuguese surnames like ''Rodrigues, Fernandes, Pereira and D'Souza''.<ref name="catholic">{{cite book|last=Kurzon|first=Dennis|title=Where East looks West: success in English in Goa and on the Konkan Coas|publisher=Multilingual Matters|year=2004|isbn=9781853596735|pages=158 pages9see page:27)}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Pinto|1999|p=168}}</ref> Catholic families belonging to the [[Roman Catholic Brahmin]] (Bamonn) caste use [[Lusophone|lusophonised]] versions of Hindu surnames like ''Prabhu, Bhat, etc''.<ref name="Porbu">{{harvnb|Maffei|1882|p=217}}</ref>

=== Gujarati ===
[[Gujarati people|Gujarati]] family names follow '''First name''', '''Father's first name''', '''Last name'''. The last name is commonly a caste name. For example: [[Narendra Modi|Narendra Damodardas Modi]] - ''Narendra'' is his first name, ''Damodardas'' is his father's name and ''Modi'' is his last name, which is the same as that used by his ancestors. Upon marriage, the wife takes on the husband's first and last names as middle and last names respectively. For example, if Jessica Amber Smith married Sanjay Bharat Vadgama her name would become Jessica Sanjay Vadagama.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.fbiic.gov/public/2008/nov/Naming_practice_guide_UK_2006.pdf|title=UK Naming Guide|date=2006|publisher=UK Government}}</ref>

=== Northern ===
Northern naming patterns follow a standard pattern - '''First name''', '''Middle name''', '''Surname'''. Many times the middle name will be appended onto the first name, or not exist at all. Sometimes middle name would even be father's first name. The surname is most commonly a caste name however, there are some caste-neutral surnames like [[Kumar]]. For example: [[Manohar Lal Khattar]] (Manohar is his first name, Lal is a middle name and Khattar is a caste surname). Many women, especially in rural areas, take on the surname ''Devi'' (meaning Goddess) or ''Kumari'' (princess) when they are married (ex. [[Phoolan Devi]], known as Phoolan Mallah before marriage). Muslims in North India use [[Arabic name|Islamic naming conventions]].<ref name=":0" />

===Kannada===
[[Kannada people|Kannada]] names vary by region as follows.

[[North Karnataka]] follows the '''First name''' - '''Father's first name''' - '''Surname''' order. This system is also found in other parts of Karnataka.{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}

Surnames are drawn from the name of the place, food items, dresses, temples, type of people, platforms, cities and profession and so on.<ref name="Names have interesting surnames in north Karnataka">{{cite news | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hubballi/Names-have-interesting-surnames-in-north-Karnataka/articleshow/7682047.cms | title=Names have interesting surnames in north Karnataka | work=The Times of India | date=11 March 2011 | agency=The Times of India | access-date=23 June 2016 | author=Vincent D'Souza}}</ref> Surnames are drawn from many other sources.

''Katti'' as a suffix is used for soldiers while ''Karadis'' is related to local folk art. Surnames according to trade or what they traditionally farm include ''Vastrad'' (piece of cloth), ''Kubasad'' (blouse), ''Menasinkai'' (chili), ''Ullagaddi'' (onion), ''Limbekai'', ''Ballolli'' (garlic), ''Tenginkai'' (coconut), ''Byali'' (pulse) and ''Akki'' (rice). Surnames based on house include ''Doddamani'' (big house), ''Hadimani'' (house next to the road), ''Kattimani'' (house with a platform in its front), ''Bevinmarad'' (person having a big [[neem]] tree near his house) and ''Hunasimarad'' (person having a big [[tamarind]] tree near his house). A carpenter will have ''Badigar'' as a surname while ''Mirjankar'', ''Belagavi'', ''Hublikar'' and ''Jamkhandi'' are surnames drawn from places. ''Angadi'' (shop), ''Amavasya'' (new moon day), ''Kage'' (crow), ''Bandi'' (bullock cart), ''Kuri'' (sheep), ''Kudari'' (horse), ''Toppige'' (cap), ''Beegadkai'' (key), ''Pyati'' (market), ''Hanagi'' (comb) and ''Rotti'' (bread) are some other surnames.

In coastal Karnataka, the surnames are different in different regions. Surnames like Hegde and Hebbar belong to the Brahmin community, while other titles like ''Ballal'', ''Shetty'', and ''Rai'' are mostly used by the landed [[Bunt (community)|Bunt]] community.{{citation needed|date=March 2020}}

Names in [[South Karnataka]] follow '''village name''', '''father's name''', '''personal name'''. For example, take [[H. D. Kumaraswamy]]. H refers to [[Haradanahalli]] (his native village), D refers to Devegowda ([[H. D. Deve Gowda|his father]]'s name) and his first name is Kumaraswamy. For married women, it is '''husband's name''', '''first name''' or the opposite (ex. [[Sumalatha|Sumalatha Ambareesh]], where [[Ambareesh]] is her husband's name).<ref name=":0" /> In South Karnataka, caste names are not common except among the higher castes. [[Kannada Brahmins]] have surnames like ''Rao'', ''Murthy'', ''Poojari'', ''Bhat''. The title ''Gowda'' was a title given to any village headman, irrespective of caste, and was written as an appendage to the person's name. For example [[Siddaramaiah]]'s father belonged to the [[Kuruba]] community but was called Siddarame Gowda. Nowadays it is mostly used as a [[Vokkaliga]] surname. Most people in South Karnataka, irrespective of caste, do not use caste surnames.

===Kashmiri===
[[Kashmiri people|Kashmiri]] names often have the following format: '''first name''', '''middle name''' (optional), '''family name'''. (For example: [[Jawaharlal Nehru|Jawahar Lal Nehru]])

Nicknames often replace family names. Hence, some family names like Razdan and Nehru may very well be derived originally from the Kaul family tree.<ref>' '''Toward Freedom:''' An Autobiography of JawaharLal Nehru', the first prime minister of India. Chapter III - Descent from Kashmir, Page 16. Readily available online at [https://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=74007923 questia.com]. {{ISBN|978-1-299-41105-0}} <br />
Nehru Says: <br />
''We were Kashmiris. Over two hundred years ago, early in the eighteenth century, our ancestor came down from that mountain valley to seek fame and fortune in the rich plains below. Those were the days of the decline of the Moghal Empire. <br /> Raj Kaul was the name of that ancestor of ours, and he had gained eminence as a Sanskrit and Persian scholar. He attracted the notice of the Emperor and, probably at his instance, the family migrated to Delhi, the imperial capital, about the year 1716. A jagir with a house situated on the banks of a canal had been granted to Raj Kaul, and, from the fact of this residence, "Nehru" (from nahar, a canal) came to be attached to his name. Kaul had been the family name; in later years, this dropped out and we became simply Nehrus.''</ref>

=== Malayali ===
Malayali surname includes Nair, Menon, Pillai, Nambootri, Panikkar and Kurup. [[Malayali]]s follow similar customs to Tamils and people in South Karnataka of '''village name''', '''father's name''', '''personal name'''. Muslims also follow this system, though their first names follow the Islamic system. Malayali Christians usually use the common Christian names. Many Malayalis have instead '''given name''', '''father's name''' as a name. For example, [[Nayanthara|Diana Mariam Kurian]], ''Diana'' is her first name, ''Mariam'' is her middle name and ''Kurian'' is her father's name. Her father's family name is ''Kodiyattu'' but she does not use it. Members of the Menon, Nair and related communities often use their mother's house name or directly add their caste name.<ref>{{Cite web|last=syngrafi|date=2019-11-03|title=Should I call myself a Nair?|url=https://syngrafi.medium.com/should-i-call-myself-a-nair-110f85892aad|access-date=2020-12-28|website=Medium|language=en}}</ref> For example, [[K. Karunakaran|Kannoth Karunakaran]], ''Karunakaran'' is his given name and ''Kannoth'' is his mother's house name, [[P. K. Vasudevan Nair]], ''Vasudevan'' is his given name and ''Nair'' is his caste surname.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Members - Kerala Legislature|url=http://www.niyamasabha.org/codes/members/m726.htm|access-date=2020-12-28|website=www.niyamasabha.org}}</ref>

=== Marathi ===
[[Marathi people|Marathi]] people of Hindu religion follow a partially [[Patronymic]] naming system. For example, it is customary to associate the father's name with the given name. In the case of married women, the husband's name is associated with the given name. Therefore, the constituents of a Marathi name as given name /first name, father/husband, family name /surname. For example:
* [[Mahadev Govind Ranade]]: Here Mahadev is the given name, Govind is his father's given name and Ranade is the surname.
* Jyotsna Mukund Khandekar: Here Jyotsna is the given name, Mukund is the husband's given name, and Khandekar is the surname of the husband<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sharma|first1=D.D.|title=Panorama of Indian anthroponomy : (an historical, socio-cultural & linguistic analysis of Indian personal names|date=2005|publisher=Mittal Publications|location=New Delhi, India|isbn=9788183240789|page=192|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a4rccspy46sC&q=%22hindu+personal+names%22+&pg=PR5}}</ref>

====Personal names====
Marathi Hindus choose given names for their children from a variety of sources. They could be characters from [[Hindu mythology|Hindu mythological]] epics such as the [[Ramayana]] or [[Mahabharat]], names of holy rivers such as [[Yamuna]] and [[Godavari]], Hindu historical characters from Maratha or Indian history such as [[Shivaji]] and [[Ashoka]], Marathi varkari saints such as [[Tukaram]], [[Dnyaneshwar]], [[Janabai]], popular characters from modern Marathi literature, names of fragrant flowers for girls (e.g. [[Mimusops elengi|Bakul]], Kamal/Kamla for [[Lotus flower|lotus]]), senses such as ''Madhura'' for sweetness, precious metals such female name ''Suwarna'' for gold, heavenly bodies such as the Sun and the Moon, ''Vasant'' and ''Sharad'' for spring and autumn respectively, names of film stars (e.g. Amit after [[Amitabh Bachchan]]) or sportsmen, and after virtues (e.g.,''Vinay'' for modesty). Nicknames such as Dada, Bandu, Balu, Sonya and Pillu for males and Chhabu and Bebi for girls have been popular too.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dhongde |first1=R. V. |title=Personal Names in Marathi |journal=Bulletin of the Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute |date=1986 |volume=45 |pages=25–36 |jstor=42930151 }}</ref>

====Surnames====
A large number of Maharashtrian surnames are derived by adding the suffix ''kar'' to the village from which the family originally hailed.{{sfn|Chopra|1982|p=52}} For example, Junnarkar came from town of [[Junnar]], Waghulkar comes from the town of Waghul. Names like [[Kumbhar]], [[Sutar]], [[Kulkarni]], [[Deshpande]], [[Deshmukh]], [[Patil (surname)|Patil]], [[Pawar]], [[Desai]], and [[Joshi]] denote the family's ancestral trade or professions.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kulkarni|first1=A.R|title=Maharashtra in the Age of Shivaji|date=1969|publisher=R.J. Deshmukh Deshmukh|page=32|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zJNirJVU9PUC&q=patilki+brahmin|access-date=2 April 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Chatterjee|first1=Ramananda|title=The Modern Review, Volume 16|publisher=Modern Review Office|page=604|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1l_k7kNP95QC&q=patilki+brahmin|access-date=2 April 2018|year=1914}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Gaborieau|first1=Marc|last2=Thorner|first2=Alice|title=Colloques internationaux du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Issue 582|date=1979|publisher=Ed. du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1979|pages=201, 202|quote=Patilki vatan is both coveted and fought over: Brahmins, Marathas and Mahars may all be past and present sharers in}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Proceedings of the Session, Volume 38|publisher=Superintendent Government Printing, India, 1967|date=1967|quote=Most of the Brahmin families hereditarily enjoyed the patilki (village headmanship) or kulkarnigiri (village accountancy) of villages}}</ref><ref name="IWI">{{cite journal |title=The Illustrated Weekly of India |volume=91 |issue=3|date=July 1970 |publisher=Bennett, Coleman & Company |page=12 |quote=Generally speaking, excepting names such as Kulkarni, Thackerey, Chitnis, Deshmukh, Deshpande, which are common to many communities in Maharashtra, a C.K.P. can be recognised by his surname. }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Home, Family and Kinship in Maharashtra|editor1=Irina Glushkova |editor2= Rajendra Vora |publisher=Oxford University Press|page=118|quote= The wada tells us of a story of three generations of a family called Deshpande who belong to the Deshastha Brahmin caste. ....Spread all over Maharashtra as a result of this process, Deshastha Brahmans held, in particular, the office of kulkarni.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Hassan|first1=Syed Siraj ul|title=The Castes and Tribes of H.E.H. the Nizam's Dominions, Volume 1|publisher=Times Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lYSd-3yL9h0C&q=desai+deshastha+brahmin&pg=PA111|access-date=2 April 2018|isbn=9788120604889|year=1989}}</ref>

Families of the historical Maratha chiefs use their clan name as their surname. Some of these are [[Jadhav]], [[Bhosale]], [[Chavan]], [[Shinde]], Shirke, More, Nimbalkar, [[Pawar]], and Ghatge.<ref name="Dumont1980">{{cite book|author=Louis Dumont|title=Homo hierarchicus: the caste system and its implications|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XsOtRGdvIigC&pg=PA121|access-date=13 May 2011|year=1980|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-16963-7|pages=121–}}</ref> Members of the numerically largest [[Maratha (caste)|Maratha]] [[Kunbi]] cultivator class among Marathi people have also adopted some of the Maratha clan names, whether to indicate allegiance to the Maratha chief they served, or as an attempt at upward mobility.<ref name="O'Hanlon2002">{{cite book|author=Rosalind O'Hanlon|title=Caste, Conflict and Ideology: Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Low Caste Protest in Nineteenth-Century Western India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5kMrsTj1NeYC&pg=PA17|access-date=13 May 2011|date=22 August 2002|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-52308-0|pages=17–}}</ref>

=== Sikh ===
[[Sikhs|Sikh]] names often have the following format: '''First name''', '''religious name''', '''family name'''. The religious name is always ''[[Singh]]'' for males, example "Ravinder Singh Sahota"; and ''[[Kaur]]'' for females, example "Harmanpreet Kaur Bhullar", "Harleen Kaur Deol" and "Manjeet Kaur Bhullar". Since Sikhism opposes [[castes]], they do not traditionally use family names. Upon marriage, a Sikh woman will take the family name of the husband.

''Sardar'' for males and ''Sardarni'' for females are sometimes prefixed as titles. A lot of Sikh first names can be used by both sexes.<ref name=":0"/>

===Tamil{{anchor|Tamil_names}}===
[[Tamils|Tamil names]] usually follow this pattern: '''Initial''' (Village name), '''Initial''' (Father's name), '''First Name''', '''Caste name''' (Example: [[Periyar E. V. Ramasamy|E.V. Ramasamy]], where E stands for [[Erode]], and V stands for Venkatappa, the father's name. Another example is R. Karthik, where R stands for Ravichandran, the father's name). There is a widespread usage of a [[Patronymic surname|patronym]] (use of the father's first name as the second name). This means that the first name of one generation becomes the second name of the next. In many cases, the father's name appear as an initial and thus the first name may be presented as a second name. When written in full (for example, on a passport),<ref>{{Cite news|url = http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/open-page/first-name-middle-name-surname-real-name/article387414.ece|title = First name, middle name, surname... real name?|newspaper = The Hindu|date = 4 April 2010|last1 = Hariharan|first1 = S. a.}}</ref> the initial is expanded as last name. For example, a name like "R. Ramesh" or "Ramesh R.", will be written in full as "Ramesh Ramaiah", and refers to "Ramesh son of Ramaiah". If Ramesh then has a son named Vijay, then his name would be "R. Vijay" or "Vijay Ramesh" as it would be in the West. There is also a general custom for Tamil women to adopt their husband's first name as their second name. Saravanan Sunitha (Sunitha daughter of Saravanan) might change her name to Ram Kumar Sunitha (Sunitha wife of Ram Kumar) after marriage. However, these customs vary from family to family and are normally never carried on over successive generations.

More common among women, making the patronym or husband name the last name is a custom adopted by people migrating to the West who want to be called by their first names without having to explain Indian naming conventions. In earlier times a caste name or village name was used by the Tamils as their last name, but due to the influence of the [[Dravidian movement]] Tamils of all castes have mostly given up caste surnames. However,frequently adopt their father's or husband's name and take it for successive generations.

The various Tamil caste names include ''[[Paraiyar]], [[Vishwakarma (caste)|Vishwakarma]], [[Vishwakarma (caste)|Aachari]], [[Konar (caste)|Konar]], [[Konar (caste)|Idaiyar]], [[Reddiar]], [[Udayar (caste)|Udayar]], [[Yadav|Yadhavar]], [[Iyengar]], [[Iyer]], [[Pillai (surname)|Pillai]], [[Mudaliar]], [[Thevar]], [[Nadar (caste)|Nadar]], [[Chettiar]], [[Gounder]], [[Naicker]]'', [[Vanniyar]] etc. The naming is therefore done in the fashion: Sunitha Ram Kumar Pillai. People in Tamil Nadu view the practice of adding the full family name to an individual's name to be a heretic practice, as according to their beliefs, the individual's heritage does not trump his or her own identity. And hence they are known to only use initials besides their name except for when caste names are given more preference by certain families rather than the family name itself.<ref>{{cite book |title= Some Contributions of South India to Indian Culture |author= Sakkottai Krishnaswami Aiyangar|year= 1923 |isbn= 8120609999 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title= The Kural |author= P.S. Sundaram|year= 1987}}</ref>

=== Telugu ===
[[Telugu people]] have a different naming style from rest of India. The '''family name''' is a [[genitive case]], hence stands first, which is followed by '''personal name'''.'''<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Brown|first=Charles Philip|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pnAIAAAAQAAJ&q=name|title=A Grammar of the Telugu Language|date=1857|publisher=printed at the Christian Knowledge Society's Press|pages=209|language=en}}</ref>''' This practice of placing family name first is also seen in [[Chinese people|Chinese]] and [[Hungarians]].<ref name=":1" />

Thus "'''Family name''' (surname), '''Given name'''" format is contrasted from North India where family name typically appears last or other parts of [[South India]] where family names are little used. This might cause confusion to varying degree within India and rest of the world.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Agency|first=United States Central Intelligence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P6UfAAAAMAAJ&q=reverse|title=Telugu Personal Names|date=1964|publisher=Central Intelligence Agency|pages=5|language=en}}</ref>

Occasionally, [[caste]] name is also suffixed at the end. For example, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, where Neelam is the family name, Sanjiva is the given name and Reddy is the caste name.

==== Personal names ====
Telugu people are often named after Hindu gods or goddesses.<ref name=":1" />

==== Family names ====
Nearly all Telugus possess family name called "''Inti peru''" ({{Literal translation|House name}}), which are the most unique of all the linguistic groups in India.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ABcIAQAAIAAJ&q=andhras|title=SA Journal of Linguistics|date=1999|publisher=Linguistic Society of Southern Africa|location=South Africa|pages=150|language=en}}</ref>

Telugu family names are often named after a place. For example, ''Pasupaleti'' after Pasupaleru, ''Kondaveeti'' after [[Kondaveedu Fort|Kondaveedu]], ''Kandukuri'' is named after [[Kandukur, Prakasam district|Kandukur]] etc. Unlike western names, where family name is well known over personal name, it is contrary among the Telugus, where person is well known by given name, without ever hearing their family name.<ref name=":1" />

Telugu family names are often abbreviated and written, ''e.g''., P. V. Narasimha Rao, D. Ramanaidu, etc. unlike the western names where given name is abbreviated.<ref name=":1" />

== Indexing ==
According to the ''[[Chicago Manual of Style]]'', Indian names are usually [[index (publishing)|index]]ed by the family name, with the family name separated from the other names by a comma, but indexing may differ according to the local usage and the preferences of the individual.<ref>"[http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/CHIIndexingComplete.pdf Indexes: A Chapter from The Chicago Manual of Style]" ({{webarchive |url=https://www.webcitation.org/6WQIXWdqH?url=http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/CHIIndexingComplete.pdf |date=18 February 2015 }}). [[Chicago Manual of Style]]. Retrieved on 23 December 2014. p. 26 (PDF document p. 28/56).</ref>

== Global Indian influence in names ==
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See [[Indosphere]], [[Sanskritization]], [[Indianization of Southeast Asia]] as well as [[Indian honorifics#Influence on other cultures|Influence of Indian honorifics in Southeast Asia]], influenced the [[Malay styles and titles|Malay]], [[Thai royal ranks and titles|Thai]], [[Filipino styles and honorifics|Filipino]] and [[Indonesian names#Honorifics|Indonesian]] honorifics.

== See also ==
* [[Indian honorifics]] and
* [[Place names in India]]

== References ==
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== Further reading ==
*Kaushik, Devendra Kumar (2000) ''[http://sites.google.com/site/opencatalogingrules/aacr2-chapter-22 Cataloguing of Indic Names in AACR-2]''. Delhi: Originals. {{ISBN|81-7536-187-5}}.

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