Indian surnames and where they are from

>>because i know that i am extremely annoying as well so it the annoyingness cancels out.

birds of a same feather ..

My chiropractor's surname is Nana. First time I've come across it. Anyone can tell me where in India that comes from?

mynah wrote:My chiropractor's surname is Nana. First time I've come across it. Anyone can tell me where in India that comes from?

When he's working on you, do you ever say "Ooh Nana, higher"?









Sorry,
I'll get me coat.

Nana = Grandfather from mother's side.

Surnames do not generally have to mean anything. Its usually nicknames of forefathers, grandfathers etc.

WideWally wrote:

mynah wrote:My chiropractor's surname is Nana. First time I've come across it. Anyone can tell me where in India that comes from?

When he's working on you, do you ever say "Ooh Nana, higher"?

Rather not. His first name is Shailen, so when he introduced himself, "I am Shailen", I wouldn't want to follow up something that sounds like a drunken karaoke rendering of a Rod Stewart song by another bad pun...

Thanks for the explanation, Naeem.

Naeem wrote:Nana = Grandfather from mother's side.

And i thought it was from Peter Pan.

WideWally wrote:

mynah wrote:My chiropractor's surname is Nana. First time I've come across it. Anyone can tell me where in India that comes from?

When he's working on you, do you ever say "Ooh Nana, higher"?

Unforgiveable. That particular earworm is going to torture me for days now.

lardbucket wrote:

WideWally wrote:

mynah wrote:My chiropractor's surname is Nana. First time I've come across it. Anyone can tell me where in India that comes from?

When he's working on you, do you ever say "Ooh Nana, higher"?

Unforgiveable. That particular earworm is going to torture me for days now.

You got off lightly. My sister is being tormented by "I kissed a girl and I liked it". She lives in fear of bursting into song inadvertently. :laule:

Nana is a Marathi name/surname.
It's also a relation.

lardbucket wrote:

WideWally wrote:

mynah wrote:My chiropractor's surname is Nana. First time I've come across it. Anyone can tell me where in India that comes from?

When he's working on you, do you ever say "Ooh Nana, higher"?

Unforgiveable. That particular earworm is going to torture me for days now.

Suffer lardy, suffer

I hope that's not what I think it is ... I'm not prepared to take the risk.

Be brave

I'm not brave enough

I clicked, I'd never heard that before.... Is it possible to turn back time, please?

But in reply, have you considered Kristy (sic) Allan's 'Goosebumps' lately?

Or 'Baked Beans' by Mother Goose?

OMG, lardy. PMSL.

embee wrote:

furriner wrote:Although, Lalit Modi in any language means Dick Head.

Great work , Furbag

BCCI in any language would still mean a Bloody Coterie of Corrupt Idiots..............

eowyn wrote:I clicked, I'd never heard that before.... Is it possible to turn back time, please?

Yes ... that ww ... he really can be an utter, utter, b@stard.

lardbucket wrote:

WideWally wrote:

mynah wrote:My chiropractor's surname is Nana. First time I've come across it. Anyone can tell me where in India that comes from?

When he's working on you, do you ever say "Ooh Nana, higher"?

Unforgiveable. That particular earworm is going to torture me for days now.

Speaking of earworms, here is a story about a parasite that got into a woman's brain & a CAT scan couldn't find it but an MRI did.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=669745

larva ... you don't treat me no good no more

you be hearin me ?

*Buckaroo* wrote:

PlanetPakistan wrote:

*Buckaroo* wrote:and he is supposed to be ur friend ?

you can't have any friends.

he is actually my best friend...but at the same time he is extremely annoying.

If he's extremely annoying how can he be a 'best freind' ?

Hmm.. buckaroo needing the concept of friends to be explained to him. Can't say this is surprising.

Josh Carney wrote:

"Appa" I believe means "father".

I believe that many from the South don't carry surnames. Since many a surname tended to represent a caste, as part of the drive to shet the caste based society surnames were dropped. Istead the father's first name gets tagged in place.

For e.g. in the case of this new opener Murali Vijay. One of those names is his first name and the other the first name of his father. Not sure which one is which.

you are spot on. I can speak for south Indians particularly Tamils. Father's first name comes first and the Son's name becomes second (surname). In the case of Murali Vijay , Murali = Father's first name . Vijay = Son's name. Another example is Mutthiah Muralitharan. Mutthiah is his father's name. Before moving to the UK I used this format but I changed it to Myname MyFather's name format. Caused a hell of a confusion in application forms etc. Only issue is that my children are going to inherit my father's first name as their surname.

mynah wrote:My chiropractor's surname is Nana. First time I've come across it. Anyone can tell me where in India that comes from?

Isn't nana a popular African name too? I have met fair few Africans particularly west africans with that name.

No, "nana" is west african for fark off you qunt . . . no wonder you hear it a lot . . .