Sikh Names

[Hammertime007]

Fateh

Which names cant Sikhs ave as they be mistaken for another religion ??

[jkvlondon]

Of course please take Guruvak for the starting letter first...

if you have names based on attributes of akal purakh you cannot go wrong ...e.g Dayal Singh, Manmohan Kaur, or have dharmic meaning e.g. Ajit Singh, Akaljyot Kaur

I would make sure not to give 'Christian' or 'European name or the current fashionable 'modern' Indian names e.g. Luke Singh, Karen Kaur ,Kamal Singh, Jasmine Kaur truth is the people who want mispronounce to irritate will do so no matter what name you pick so be a Sikh who is proud of his/her roots and pick a Sikh name and teach everyone the correct pronounciation

It will be good if you encourage proper etiquette of sikh names that you use full name not cut down versions or nicknames e.g Pinky, Rinku ... etc , that way the child will feel happy with his or her name

good luck with the naming

[JSinghnz]

_{Not using their real last name SINGH and Kaur and only using their backward, tribal names}

_{makes them mistaken for another religion.}

[jkvlondon]

_{Not using their real last name SINGH and Kaur and only using their backward, tribal names}

_{makes them mistaken for another religion.}

Maybe I wasn't clear about etiquette of Sikh names ...the name always has Kaur and Singh when you call that person ..so Instead of calling my kids just Jaspreet, Dayal, Bahadur and Isher I always say Jaspreet Singh, Dayal SIngh, Bahadur SIngh and Isher Kaur . BTW if you have twins like I had Dayal Singh and Bahadur SIngh you can chose to take one letter and name both from that letter or as we did we took the first two word letters of the Guruvak. My Husband Named Bahadur Singh after Guru Teg Bahadur ji ...that was the affect of the story of Guru Sahib Shaheedi on him despite coming from a different background .

when we read a Sikh name it is understood as ' Singh or Kaur belonging to/ of ...or having the attribute of (First Name)'

The last step I forgot to mention was once you have settled on a choice , take your child/children to Darbar and announce the child's name so that Sangat can share in this happiness and do Jaikara.

Please do not cut the child's kesh it is not our place to deny that jeevan the chance to present themselves for amrit with their original God given roop. Our Children are NOT ours, they are a special sewa assigned to us by Akal Purakh we have to show them the world and how to stay out of maya as much as possible and to join them with Waheguru's charan by doing naam abihaas and sewa, simran.Sorry got a little serious there but it is a deeply felt sentiment.

[Hammertime007]

At 1699 when the Panj Pyare were formed the first names were not changed, why was this ?

I used to go College with a Gurjati kid called Himmat and there was Gujrati girl called Dya

What bout the famous Baba Ram Singh freedom fighter, Ram is heavily associated with Hindu relgion ? So is Hari but we have Hari Singh Nawla

Ive never seen Sikhs with south Indian names but Northen ones cross reference.

Is there rule on this ?

[jkvlondon]

At 1699 when the Panj Pyare were formed the first names were not changed, why was this ?

I used to go College with a Gurjati kid called Himmat and there was Gujrati girl called Dya

What bout the famous Baba Ram Singh freedom fighter, Ram is heavily associated with Hindu relgion ? So is Hari but we have Hari Singh Nawla

Ive never seen Sikhs with south Indian names but Northen ones cross reference.

Is there rule on this ?

Bhai Himmat Rai gave his sees and became Bhai Himmat Singh ji....the order in which the panj piare gave sees and their names are not coincidental they have deep meaning for our panth and what stages a sikh passes through when he/she gives their all to Guru ji. Hari is a name of Akal Purakh also is part of our gurmantar same with Ram this is not Ram Chandar but the one who is rameya in His creation Akal Purakh again in fact Ram chander is named after the same Akal Purakh. If you put Kaur or Singh always with the first name like the Americans sometimes put first and second together to make a compound name like Mary-Louise or Jim-Bob when you refer to the child everyone will get the habit too .