naming the li'l one!

A friend of mine on her last trimester is busy looking out for unique Indian names for her little son who is to come into this world anytime soon. She's been asking some of her friends to help her make a list of names and i am one of them too..! I was all excited and smiling thinking that i would surely come up with some real good names for that little bundle of joy. So as i sat up browsing the web..........

Google search>>Indian Boy baby names>>
Results 1 - 10 of about 21,900,000 for indian baby boy names. (0.17 seconds)

OMG! soooo many.. now how was i suppose to categorise and filter was the question that stopped me to continue for a while. I was lost when i tried to get my priorities right, whether it had to be importance of its meaning, uniqueness, modernity, pronounciation, length, based on the star at the time of birth(nakshatram) ,mythologically influenced(well, hardly do we find people using them these days though), the regional influence (north-indian, south-indian..) or even worse the influence of some filmstars or even characters they played, sportsmen..... aaah! list was never-ending..

Well, after some pondering i narrowed down on my priorities to its meaning , pronounciation, length , uniqueness and also how easily it could be spelt keeping in mind that most of us living outside India i just cannot ignore the fact that how our lovely Indian names get sabotaged as people wouldn't know to pronounce or spell them. Now that i am done with preparing my name list, am all excited to see the little one arrive and very curious to know what his parents would name him.... just can't wait...!! ;)