Rishab’s Naming ceremony.

Naming ceremony in India/Karnataka

Naming ceremony for a child is typically typically scheduled within 3 months after birth. All relatives and well wishers gather and wish the baby and call him/her with the formal name. in otherwords the baby is assigned a name name that will be used for the rest of his/her life.

While naming the baby we considered lot of points some of them were
(a) Name should not become abusive on breaking or making it short.
(b) Should not yeild wrong meanings when shortforms are made along with last name.
(c) Should be easy for everyone to call(including westerners)
(d) Should have good meaning.

Rishab

- Rishab means 2nd note of musical instrument(Piano) which is RE.I hope Rishab will some day be good at music with some instrument. His grandfather has lot of interest in music (father too to some extent), We have a Piano(a synthesizer), some Flutes and a Banjo.

piano-keys-Rishab

Most of Rishab’s relatives gathered in his naming ceremony which happened on his 3rd month birthday at Belgaum – His grandfather’s house.

His aunty named him according to the tradition. They first name the child with 4 other names and finally with his real name as shown in this video.

~ by Sanjay Kattimani on July 12, 2008.