There was a tradition in some Sindhi families to call children with strange names (including names of vegetables and fruits) mostly in cases where their earlier children died at young age. Due to this, I heard names like Mirch, leemo khan, Basar (piyaz / onion), Laung, etc.
Unique, In Sikh family children generally have unisexual name, Harpreet, Avneet, Prabhjot etc, its last name either Singh or Kaur makes the difference:D Hindus rarely have any unisexual names, and North eastern people have Indo-Bodonese names like Ching bai nang baa is name of my collegue:D
There was a boy in our neighbor whose name was Aalam and people have made it aaloo :D
Another problems with names is common names in near families. There was a time, when people avoid naming their children with same names of the children of their first / second cousins and in case someone named same name to his/her children it was kinda start of ego war.
Unique, In Sikh family children generally have unisexual name, Harpreet, Avneet, Prabhjot etc, its last name either Singh or Kaur makes the difference:D Hindus rarely have any unisexual names, and North eastern people have Indo-Bodonese names like Ching bai nang baa is name of my collegue:D
There are many such names which are given to both girls and boys. Our landlady name was Imtiaz similar to our roommate. :D
Other such names include Irshaad, Anwar, Mumtaz, Shokat (although a very very mardana name), etc.
i agree its not like the name is long thts y shorten its kind of tradition my baby girl name is zahra n evry1 calling her zaro even me n huby my huby name is bilal n i m the one calling her bil bc i like it i think these r smaller names n u can pronounce easily but still dont know y
my nephew name is ibrahim n v all call him ibbi
my father used to make fun tht ppl now keep those names which can b easily cahnged into nicks… he says now a days nicks r more important he would example tht parents say v want to call her baby sherry so v vl name sehrish or shehryar
its funy but my dad used 2 make fun
Is it only common in Desis to make short forms of the names like Hameed (Meeda), Sikandar (Sikku), Imran (Immi), Parveen (Peeno) besides calling people with nick names like Guddu, Pappu, Babloo, Gudia.
You name it and people have a short form of a name be it Abdullah / Abdul Hameed (Abdul) or Gullu / Ghulamoo for the name with prefix Ghulam (Ghulam Mustafa, Ghulam Hussain). Its sometimes irritating..
No it is not just a desi thing. It is very common in non-desis too.
Both the short form in names as the use of nick names.
My friend call her husband Omar “om” all the time and it looks weird. My kids have big names in school some of their friends make their name short but I don’t do it in house. I like to call them with full names or some names which I mix.
There was also a trend to name children on the names of the day they born. In Sindh, Aachar (Sunday), Soomar (Monday), Khameeso from Khamees (Thursday) and Juma Khan (from Friday) were common names.
Using name of city / village as last name is common in molvis and poets. Saba Akbar Adadi, Waseem Barelvi, Akbar Alah Abadi, Maulana Yousuf Ludhyanvi, etc.
There is also a trend in Desis to make short forms of their names especially when they live outside their countries. Allah Wasaya Chohdri (AW Chohdri) :D. Pummi is a famous short name for a old but long Desi name of women. :D
bc i like it i think these r smaller names n u can pronounce easily but still dont know y 
