You be careful when you name your girl child. It may affect what she turns into, Zuska notes.
You may notice many Indian names for girls end with 'a' (rhymes with 'yaaa', Ramya, Priya...). That goes back to Manu Smriti, the tribal codebook of a bunch of pretentious ancient men, which says a girl's name should end in a long vowel as it was considered pleasing and auspicious. The rule is meaningless and only shows what ignorant chauvinistic men can come up with. Sadly, history has a long arm. Meaningless edicts created long ago can have profound cumulative effects on the present day society; names of girls is one clear instance.
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You idiots, dont blame Indians for screwing up girl names, its none of your business.
The names are as per their language conventions, not based on your English vowels.
Shut the hell up before blaming Indians.
Japanese female names traditionally end in "-ko" (as a diminutive, I believe, not in the literal meaning of "child"), and male names end in "-ro". Quite a lot of common names adhere to that, but newer names are just as likely to end with something else. The only practical difference nowadays is that a crown prince will only marry a woman with a "-ko" ending - but then, that is only one of a ridiculously long list of precise restrictions, and the situation isn't one that people bump into a lot in any case.
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Thank you for the note, Jan. I suppose, the long hand of history smacks figureheads like the japanese prince the hardest.