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Browse modern Indian baby names of two to six letters with meanings, and a spelling-ease score that flags the romanisation traps in each one.
The Short Modern Indian Baby Names lists modern Indian baby names of two to six letters — Sanskrit, Hindi, Tamil, Punjabi, Arabic and Persian in origin — each with its meaning and a spelling-ease score out of 100. The score starts at 100 and deducts 12 points per optional doubled vowel (Aarav / Arav), 8 per aspirated digraph whose h gets dropped (Bhavya / Bavya), 8 per doubled consonant, 6 for a y standing in for a vowel and 6 per letter beyond five. It is built for parents who want a name that survives forms, boarding passes and roll calls intact.
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Set "Gender", "Origin", "Exact letter count" and "Minimum spelling-ease score", then pick a "Starting letter" or leave it on Any.
Type a spelling into "Name to check" under "Score any name for spelling ease" to see its score out of 100 with every deduction itemised.
Read the matched Name / Meaning / Ease table and the "Average spelling-ease score", then press "Copy list" to take the shortlist.
Nothing in the list runs past six letters, so every result is genuinely short.
Each deduction is itemised, so you can see exactly which part of a name is ambiguous.
No name appears without the sense of the word it comes from and the tradition it belongs to.
Two- and three-letter names such as Om, Ira, Ved, Dev, Ram, Jay, Ila and Dia are the shortest in common modern use. Most of them score 100 for spelling ease because they contain no doubled vowels, no aspirated digraphs and no vowel y — the one exception is Jay, which scores 94 because its ay ending is a y standing in for a vowel.
Both are correct romanisations of the same Sanskrit word; the double a marks a long vowel that English spelling has no separate letter for. Arav is easier to spell from hearing, Aarav is closer to the Devanagari, and the practical difference is that whichever you pick, the other will keep appearing on forms.
Because romanisation is not standardised. The commonest traps are optional long vowels (Meera / Mira), aspirated consonants where the h is silent to an English ear (Bhavya / Bavya), doubled consonants (Riddhi / Ridhi) and y used as a vowel (Kavya / Kavia).
Short names are generally easier, not harder, but some systems require a minimum of two or three characters in a given-name field and some airline and passport systems object to a single-word name with no surname. If your family uses a single name, check the requirements of the passport or ID authority you will apply to.