Here are the top 20 names:
RAO 1010
SREENIVAS 848
REDDY 827
VENKAT 725
LAKSHMI 550
KRISHNA 529
KUMAR 522
PRASAD 395
RAVI 365
VIJAYA 287
RAMA 260
MADHAVI 241
SURESH 220
SREEDHAR 215
RAMESH 212
BABU 193
CHANDRA 192
KIRAN 190
SREEKANTH 183
DEVI 171
If we ignore last names like Rao and Reddy, Sreenivas tops the list. If
we add together Sreenivas and Venkat, it tops the list by a wide margin
regardless!
This exercise started when someone asked me for a name for a baby girl
that rhymes/matches with her cousin "Siri". All they could think of was
Simi, but that is North Indian. The internet is full of various baby
name lists, but nothing helped. I want to put together a database of
Telugu names in use, and arrange it so that we can get answers to
questions like this (eg. 4 letter name starting with R = Ravi).
If anyone has access to large lists of names (eg. membership lists of
Telugu organizations) I'd like to get a copy (just names, no other
identifying info like phone numbers or emails) for "research" purposes.
- Sreenadh
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Sreenadh,
Way back in 1993 the following post was such a mega hit that it was -
and still is - so often referred, discussed on- and off-lists :-).
TRAVAILS OF BEING A SREENI
Srinivas Gukal
http://tinyurl.com/dxlvza
I have more to say on this subject and on my own (first) name :-) if
time permits.
Regards,
Sreenivas
One thing seems to have changed since then, pleasantly!
My first name is no longer butchered or even misspelled and more
often than I could ever imagine, is pronounced correctly. After all
there seems to be an advantage for frequently encountered names!
Needless to say, last name is different issue:-)
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Regards
-Srinivas
--- On Sat, 4/25/09, Ragasudha Vinjamuri <rag...@yahoo.co.in> wrote:
<snip>
tyaagaraaju kanuka uMTE yeMta baadha paDevADO ;-)
<snip>
Even our dear Thyagaraja (swamy) got his name changed to Thayagaraaya... so
he wil not feel bad...
> hata vidheeeeeeeeee..............:-(
>
> tyaagaraaju kanuka uMTE yeMta baadha paDevADO ;-)
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