{"id":13899,"date":"2018-12-03T12:44:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T16:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/?p=13899"},"modified":"2018-12-03T12:44:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T16:44:36","slug":"baby-boy-gupt-brother-to-rowan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/2018\/12\/03\/baby-boy-gupt-brother-to-rowan\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Boy Gupt@, Brother to Rowan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Swistle,<\/p>\n

We are having a second boy, due in February, and having a very hard time deciding on a name. My husband is Indian and most of his family is still located there. I am American and we live here in the US. Our last name Gupt@ is a very common Indian last name.<\/p>\n

When naming our first son, we chose the name Rowan because we liked how similar it sounded to the Indian name Rohan, which we both loved. However, we felt Rohan would be frequently mispronounced in the US and Rowan was a good compromise because it would be pronounced the same in both cultures. (I have a name that is frequently mispronounced, so this is something that is always on the top of my mind when choosing a name.) We ended up giving him an Indian middle name, Aayan, so that he could always have the option to go by an Indian name if he wanted in the future.<\/p>\n

When we got pregnant again, we said we would name the baby Aria if it was a girl (Arya is also an Indian name), but it turns out the baby is a boy and we are totally stuck. We want a name that is accessible to both cultures and sounds good with Rowan. I also don’t like many of the usual suggestions for crossover names (Jay\/Jai, Nikhil\/Nik, Hari\/Harry, AJ\/Ajay, Sam\/Sameer, Vik\/Vikram, etc)<\/p>\n

Top contenders right now are:
\nRishi – Indian name but easy to pronounce by everyone. Would it be weird if one child has an Indian name and the other does not? Also, if we choose this name, do we give the baby a western middle name? We also discussed Reece, which sounds a little similar to Rishi, but my husband prefers Rishi as he associates Reece with the actress Reese Witherspoon and finds it too feminine
\nKieran – Kiran is an Indian name, so it is similar to Rohan\/Rowan in that it sounds the same but spelled differently. But we’re not Irish, so would it be strange if both of our kids have Irish names? We’ve also floated the idea of Kirin or Kian instead. We have a close relative (female) named Kiran, so I’m not sure if using the Indian spelling is an option
\nArcher (Archie for short) – I love this name, but my husband isn’t crazy about it. He associates Archie with the comic, which was very popular in India when he was growing up. I think Archer would be easy to pronounce and similar to Indian names like Archana, Archan, Archit
\nDamian – Not really an Indian name but I’ve found a few websites that say it has Sanskrit origins. It’s my least favorite of the four because I find it to be a little long with three syllables and no clear nickname, but husband really likes this name<\/p>\n

I think I could be talked into any of these names, but none of them stand out as the perfect one. I would love your suggestions on other options and thoughts on these.<\/p>\n

Thanks in advance for your help!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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My favorite is Kieran. I like the way it echoes what you did last time with Rowan\/Rohan. And I think Celtic names are mainstream enough in the U.S. that it doesn’t seem odd if someone has a couple of them in a non-Celtic family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Swistle, We are having a second boy, due in February, and having a very hard time deciding on a name. My husband is Indian and most of his family is still located there. I am American and we live here in the US. Our last name Gupt@ is a very common Indian last name. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-3Cb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13900,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13899\/revisions\/13900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}