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When I married a guy from the Midwest — whose last name is actually White — I never thought that naming our mixed-race babies would be such a challenge. Just find a beautiful name that we both like that has a nice ring to it. Easy enough, right? It turns out that picking an Indian name is a delicate art when you are raising the child in the U.S. with a non-Indian spouse or partner. Meaning and tradition are two factors that greatly influence Indian baby names.
While this was so that he could say the names with ease, it was also so that other non-Indians could as well. It would go like this: “Brian, how do you say A-n-u-s-h-k-a?” And he would say it in a way that made me cringe. “How do you say ‘P-a-r-v-a-t-i?” And he would say it ending with the 'tee' sound rather than the correct “Par-va-thee.” Our short list of favorite names were all two-syllable, easy-to-spell names.
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