Dear Dipti Patil:

Regarding the meanings- that has to be your personal decision as it is you and not me having your daughter. I can comment only on the sound of the names. If your daughter will ever live in the U.S. the name Bodhi (which I remember from a previous thread, means Awakened) sounds just a bit like a slang- kind of a word in U.S. English that may be the cause of her being teased and made fun of (a person’s behind). This is something to think about..?

Also, some parents like unique, unusual names. Problem is that when the child is in school or later on the phone, the child/ person will have to spell out her name again and again and that gets tiring. In a classroom setting, a child is not likely to want the attention of the teacher mispronouncing the name, correcting the teacher (a new teacher, a substitute..) again and again and otherwise answering yet again how to spell the unusual name.

So, avoid names that sound like other words that children/ others may use to make fun of the child and avoid uniquely sounding or spelled names that will draw lots of unwanted attention to the child in having to correct pronunciation and having to spell it for others, again and again (even after school, in all official communications).

anita