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6 unusual facts about Indian name


Brahmayya

Brahmayya or Brahmaiah (Telugu: బ్రహ్మయ్య) is one of the Indian names.

Ganapati Sastri

Ganapati Sastri (Telugu: గణపతి శాస్త్రి) is one of the Indian names.

Niharika

Niharika is female Indian name.

Pullaiah

Pullaiah or Pullayya (Telugu: పుల్లయ్య) is an Indian name.

Raja Babu

Raja Babu or Rajababu is an Indian name.

Umesh Chandra

Umesh Chandra or Umeshchandra is one of the Indian names.



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Ararat, Virginia

The Saura Indian name for nearby Pilot Mountain in Surry County, North Carolina is "The Pilot" and the mountain reverted to that.

Bennington, Kansas

A paper written on the history of Bennington states that Bennington is an Indian name meaning "place of fine trees." The same article also states that co-city founder George R. Parker gave the town its name after Bennington, Vermont.

Lewis Hector Garrard

Wah-to-Yah, the title, is the Indian name for the Spanish Peaks in southern Colorado.

Nagamma

Nagamma is an Indian name based on Serpant goddess Nāga.

Point Arguello Light

The area of land now known as Point Arguello was originally known by the 'Chumashan—Canalino Indian' name "Nocto" and was part of the territory ruled by Chief Salipuata at the time of the occupation by the Spanish missionaries.

Scarborough River

In the early 17th century, Christopher Levett gave the name of the river, or perhaps the marshes it drains, as Owascoag, after the Abenaki Indian name.

Shreya

Shreya is a contemporary Hindu Indian name which means 'Auspicious' or 'Lucky' in Sanskrit.

Vanaja

A common Indian name: in Sanskrit, "vana" means "forest" and "Vanaja" means "forest born"; also spelled Vanaia, Vanaiah, Vanya, Vanyah