Random Indian Name Generator

How this list was compiled: Verify-first step, 2026-09-30: no open official file of names for India is known, so this list is a selection and says so; the given names rest on the fallback the plan allows, a name's own English Wiktionary entry stating its language, confirmed for 291 names before any was listed. India has many languages and naming customs, and no list of this kind stands for the country: this one holds the names English Wiktionary documents, and most of what it documents comes from Sanskrit and Hindi. Given names: the English entries in English Wiktionary's categories of given names from Sanskrit, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati and Urdu (https://en.wiktionary.org, CC BY-SA 4.0, 978 entries read 2026-09-30 through the MediaWiki API). A name is listed when its entry (1) is a given-name sense with a stated sex or 'unisex', (2) says the name is used in India, or gives a source word in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Gujarati, Marathi or Kannada, (3) opens its etymology with the word the name comes from, written in its own script, in a language of India, and (4) for a Sanskrit word, glosses that word. No entry from Urdu or Punjabi met all four. The card prints that word in its script, the language and the entry's gloss; spellings that share one source word, sex and language share a card ('also spelled', 34 cards). 198 of the 291 given-name cards carry a gloss. By our choice the gloss is left off 21 names whose gloss is the name of a deity or figure or a word of worship, shortened on a few, and 12 entries are left out: glosses about a body or skin, a rite, a title, or a doubtful source word. No religion, caste or community is printed for any name, whatever the entry says. Languages of the given-name cards: Sanskrit 193, Hindi 90, Tamil 5, Malayalam 1, Telugu 1, Bengali 1. Family names: the English entries in English Wiktionary's categories of surnames from Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Marathi, Sanskrit, Malayalam, Kannada, Odia and Assamese (447 entries read 2026-09-30). A surname is listed when every surname sense of its entry gives one of those languages as its origin, and the spelling is among the 15,000 most common last names of the US Census Bureau's 2020 file (https://www2.census.gov/topics/genealogy/2020surnames/Names2020_LastNames_RaceHispanic.xlsx, read 2026-09-30, public domain), our measure of a spelling in wide use where most visitors live: 91 names. The card gives the language or languages the entry states and, where the entry's etymology has it, the spelling in that language's script (77 cards). A meaning is printed for 6 family names only, where the entry glosses the word as a trade or office; any gloss or entry text that names a religion, a caste, a clan or a community is left out, and the card never says more than the language. Two entries that are titles for women rather than family names are left out (Bibi, Kumari). Bengali is also the language of Bangladesh and Punjabi is also spoken in Pakistan, so some of these family names are common there too. Languages of the family-name cards: Sanskrit 8, Punjabi 22, Tamil 7, Bengali 17, Hindi 16, Assamese 1, Gujarati 12, Marathi 4, Kannada 3, Malayalam 3, Telugu 1. The plan asked for the region where each family name is most found; no source read gives that for a list of names, so the language is given instead. x.type is what the Name type row filters on (family, girl, boy; a name for both is found under girl and boy); x.lang3 is what the Language row filters on (Sanskrit, Hindi, Other) and every card carries it; x.ascii is the Latin spelling for sorting. Counted from this file: 382 cards, 91 family names, 123 girls' names and 168 boys' names, 5 of the given names for both. Every card that states a meaning, an origin or another form of the name carries the address of the page that statement was read on in x.src (and a second reference in x.src2 where one was used). Licence: Drawn from English Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The census file used to choose the family names is a work of the US federal government and in the public domain. The selection is our own work.