How to tell gender from Indian first names?

Question

How do I tell gender from Indian first names?
Are there any basic rules?
What I have deduced so far:
Names ending in 'a' are (almost?) always female.
Names ending in 'i' are usually, but not always, male.
Names ending in 'd',p','v' are usually male.

I'm looking for some compact basic rules, rather than an encyclopaedic list, which I could find for myself.

Can we have a proper answer please?

Indians as in India, not native Americans - ireland!

Answer 1

ask your elders
for specific, detailed help...
http://www.native-languages.org/baby.htm

"...only a few native american Indian languages have a written history..."
"...grammatical structure--phonology, or sound system; morphology, or word structure; and syntax, or sentence structure--of native american Indian languages varies considerably..."
"...the most commonly cited trait of american indian languages is polysynthesis--the expression of complicated ideas within a single word containing many separate meaningful elements, or morphemes...."
"...gender distinctions like those of the indo-european languages are found in only a few languages..."
"...more languages make a grammatically comparable distinction between animate, or living, and inanimate nouns..."
http://www.indians.org/welker/americas.htm

"...native languages have some extraordinary differences than european languages, for instance, some have different dialects spoken by men and women..."
"...cherokee pronouns are not gender specific at all...."
http://www.ahalenia.com/noksi/native.html

some personal names have gender markings...
http://www.indopedia.org/Grammatical_gender.html

native american language resources...
http://www2005.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~krkvls/lang.html

native american languages & links...
http://www.cogsci.indiana.edu/farg/rehling/nativeAm/ling.html

super links from native.web...
http://www.nativeweb.org/resources/languages_linguistics/native_american_languages/

Answer 2

There is no scientific rule here. You can take help from sources publishing Indian names if you need help with a specific name.

For regions in India, the first name does not have any gender significance. For example, Panjabi females have same first name as males but their names end with Kaur.

Answer 3

look for baby names in an indian dictionary of baby names

Answer 4

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Answer 5

there is no rule written in stone,
just like in america there could be a boy named sue!

Answer 6

You are right.Also:-
Names ending with 'ay' are male
'ini' ending names are female
Names such as simran,kamran, anshul, tejinder and perminder can be either.