Its really very difficult to recognise gender of certain names (non-desi)
June is the name of a female , August is male 
I don’t know what would be case with July 
Used to consider Nichola a female untill I talked to him 
All of the above, used to think that Anjini Verma would be dancing on ‘mere hathon main nau-nau chooRiyan’, but when talked to him ‘Main to aiwen hi awen lut gaya’ 
Any rule to recognise gender of names especially Western and far-east names?
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Sikh names are the worst (and no offense to my Sikh friends). Their names are unisex.
So Gurpreet and Gurinder and Sukhbir and Harinder can go either way - and it's like that for sooooooooooooooooooooo many of their names :(
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in east..name ending with a or i is considered as name of female gender ...
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humarey paas bhi aise names hain..
for example misbah…
I think poori dunya mai jiska jo dil kerta hai..wo name rakhta hai..regardless of gender 
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Sikh names are the worst (and no offense to my Sikh friends). Their names are unisex.
So Gurpreet and Gurinder and Sukhbir and Harinder can go either way - and it's like that for sooooooooooooooooooooo many of their names :(
i think kaur and singh take care of that confusion...but first part of the name is unisex.....
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Sikh names are the worst (and no offense to my Sikh friends). Their names are unisex.
So Gurpreet and Gurinder and Sukhbir and Harinder can go either way - and it's like that for sooooooooooooooooooooo many of their names :(
Even Pathan names are unisex. Shehnaz Sheikh was a Pakistani hockey player
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Anjini is from India
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I had read about a village once,where ppl keep names of utensils/other things as the names of their kids.
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kalash tribe from pakistan
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i think kaur and singh take care of that confusion...but first part of the name is unisex.....
Yeah, but you don't always see the Kaur or Singh written. In school, most students are just registered as Singh for their last name because they use the same last name as their dads. It's only more recently that other Sikh last names are being used - like Atwal, Chabba, Toor and then the Kaur or the Singh is used as a middle name.
And actually, I remember reading an article that said that Sikh people have a baptismal ceremony and they are expected to give up their family names and take on Singh or Kaur as their identifying names.
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Yeah, but you don't always see the Kaur or Singh written. In school, most students are just registered as Singh for their last name because they use the same last name as their dads. It's only more recently that other Sikh last names are being used - like Atwal, Chabba, Toor and then the Kaur or the Singh is used as a middle name.
And actually, I remember reading an article that said that Sikh people have a baptismal ceremony and they are expected to give up their family names and take on Singh or Kaur as their identifying names.
didn't know that......
indian punjabis and peoples living in and around delhi have unisex pet names...like sweetie,sonu,pinky and bubbly
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didn't know that......
indian punjabis and peoples living in and around delhi have unisex pet names...like sweetie,sonu,pinky and bubbly
le dus :)
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Naseem, Mubeen
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why did you edit my taarif..........
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Shafqat ke sath Cheema na lagao to zanana naam
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aapne read ker liya tha :sid:
cuz i googled kalash tribe..aur mujhe wo nahi mila jahan likha tha k they name kids after utensils :no:
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Telephone not just an instrument in Kalash culture | Newspaper | DAWN.COM
read this article…
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Nusrat, Raahat 
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I give you tareef again
Great memory and searching skills 
ab theek hai ? 