The name "Chedi" is an Indian Surname. Many years ago, People with that name moved into the Caribbean Region. But by Time, The name evolved as the people were ruledby Several European Govts. Currently, the name is spelt as Cheddie.
Other Indo-Carribean Names are Merilia, Roopan, Roopmin, Merahi, Lehallal, or Sanguenou.
This Fact was mailed in by Richard B. Shiva-Ram Cheddie. His e-mail address is Yuddh1@ix.netcom.com
If one does a sample study of Sikh names even upto 1920s, most of them had no suffixes and prefixes. They were simple names like Bhagat, Uddham, Kehar, Vazir, Ram, Bishen, Kishan, Arjan, Bir, Zorawar,
In Tamil, and sometimes other southern languages, names end in '-an' when a person is named after a god, such as Ramnath, Badrinath, Narayan etc. These become Ramanathan, Badrinathan, Narayanan etc. t
You may know that the three most common lists of religious hindu names are 1) The Vishnu Sahasranamam 2) The Lalitha Sahasranamam and 3) the less well know Shiva Sahasranamam. Each has 1008 names of t
