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