Help us name our son.

Sneha and Bishal are expecting a son. There are 6,715 names to choose from, and we would rather not choose alone.

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B is Bishal, S is Sneha. The V names are here for a reason of their own.

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Boy Name Candidates: 172 pages, 6,715 names lemma-extracted from the Digital Corpus of Sanskrit (Vedic and Classical) and the Pali suttas via the Digital Pali Dictionary, filtered to B, S and V at 1-3 syllables, each V name carrying the document’s own B-variant. 1,708 are attested as a real name; 590 carry an evocative meaning; 201 are both. Page numbers cite that document.

Devanagari is our rendering, not the document’s.

On the eleventh day, at the nwaran, a priest reads the stars and gives him one name. The name we will actually call him at home is ours to choose. That is the one we are asking about.