whats in a name

An Indian doctor couple, a cardiologist and gynaecologist had two daughters, they named them. Anjina and Vajina.

This is an anecdote I heard some time ago. There is tremendous importance of having a male child in Indian families. There was a couple in Bombay who decided after marriage that when they have a son, he would be called Arthur. When they did have children, turns out they were all girls so they named them Belinda, Catherine, Doris, Ethel, Francesca until finally, they had Arthur!

Another anecdote heard during my time in Bombay (now Mumbai) - A couple called Gloria and Rodger, decided to call their child.... Glodger!

There are crazy names adopted by people in southern India, lots of them after communist era leaders, not unusual therefore to find Stalin, Lenin as common names. I had a colleague who was called Winston Churchill, knew a Newton in college. They often go for roman characters as well, I remember a magazine article mentioning someone called Clitorius!