Names

Need some Indian names for characters in your novel? Here are two sites with Sanskrit-based Indian names and their meanings:

Indian Baby Names

Behind the Name

And how about some Tamil names?

If you're writing a historical novel, here's an interesting piece on Medieval Tamil Names.

Here are some of the thousand (Tamil) names of the god Shiva.

Finally, not to be parochial, here are 20,000 names from around the world.

Oops, one more: The Random Name Generator "uses data from the US Census to randomly generate male and female names." (This is fun, actually.)