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  • Pronounced IN-dee-ah it has three variants - Inda, Indee and Indya. India is a very popular female first name, ranking 1180 out of 4275 for females of all ages in the 1990 U.S. Census. Another variant is Indiya, which means knowledgeable. BTW - The name India is from old Persian version of Sindhu. -------------------- Persian explorers visited the area even in ancient times, and the Iranian 'h' is cognate with Sanskrit 's'. Thus Sindhu became Hindu. Similarly, Sanskrit Asura (a spirit, later an evil spirit) is cognate with Ahura, the Supreme God of the early Iranian people. The Greeks, dropping the 'H', derived Indos. The Latin form of Indos is Indus, the name by which the river system is still known in the West. Its name was given to the entire subcontinent by the Romans, who adapted it to the current India. wikipedia.org
  • India English: presumably from the name of the subcontinent, and apparently taken into regular use as a result of its occurence in Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind (1936), which contributed a remarkable number of given names to the English language. In the case of India Hicks, Lord Mountbatten's granddaughter, the name was chosen because of her family's association with, and affection for, India. A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192800507

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