The Name Sake

Usually I found blogs about children written by their Moms but I may be the first or one of the rarest fathers who are writing this blog about child :). It may be due to because I am fascinated by my son or I spent most of my time with him. The intention about this blog is how we come up with this name of our son “AVYAAN” as many people ask this questions from us.

As we resides in India where information about the gender of child is not given and also considered to be a criminal offense so obviously we do not know about if god is giving us a princess or a son but intuition of my wife (Anwesha) was very clear that we will be blessed with a son so as usual we (Read it as “I”) were very captivated to finding the names. You know really this is a very good mental exercise and really I enjoyed it a lot. We(I) browsed websites, books, news papers, Television serials to get a good and unique name which should sound good not only with our surname “Mishra” but also with the Army designations like Caption, Lieutenant, Lt. Colonel etc. :) (My college and school friends may know the background behind it). I know with this above sentence I have unlocked a new discussion topic that how you can force your dreams on your child (Like VIRUS in 3-Idiots  a Bollywood movie), but that’s what I am. :P.

In the exercise of finding names we came across approx. 15 boys name and only 2 Girls name ( As we were moving with my better half’s instinct). Now the final name has to be from Arsh Mishra (As Arsh means Sky and My name also means the same and Anwesha want’s that too) or Anvay Mishra. Obviously then question arises -From where this Avyaan came in existence? I don’t know but I was not fully convinced with above two names so I was still searching the names. We want an unique name so we were not convinced with currently famous name like Ayaan etc, so I started putting some letters in between like BHI, Bh, dh, r, n, v etc. after putting v it sounds me like a one which sounds good to my ear, so I started browsing the websites where I found the meaning of the same (So you can imagine that first we create the name and then understood the meaning :) ) now after the birth of the child on 28 may 2015 our PoC (Proof of concept regarding women intuition) was proved and we were blessed with Avyaan. I transmit the names Avyaan, Arsh and Anvay in Family group and friends for the feedbacks. Most of the feedbacks were good so finally our boy got his name on the same day of birth.  

Now the meaning of Avyaan:

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Avyaan meaning in Hindi and Sanskrit is : Perfect ( A + Vyaan) where "A" means "not" and "VYAAN" came from a sanskrit word called VYANGA which means "Imperfection" so Avyaan = Without any imperfection = Perfect.

Avyaan is also Hindu Lord Ganesha's one name. Lot of readers of this blog said that it is also a Lord Vishnu name.  ॐ अ व्यानाय  नमः  is a shloka which I heard in Shirdi Deva Sthanam.