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If I were to choose a name for myself from the list what would it be? IF my parents were to choose from the same list, what could it have been? Surprisingly, in the West, names do not seem to have changed over the centuries.

@Shekhar: In India they surely have in the last two generations.Christians have started keeping first names as Hindu.Among Hindus and Muslims too names have changed drastically. No more Qamaruddins and Sirajuddins now similarly no more Jagdishs, Hanumants or others names of Gods either.South also has north Indian short names now.Nationalisation of culture ?

Outcome of globalisation is convergence of many kinds. One convergence we talk about in economics is the convergence of inflation rates and interest rates. The other type of convergence is the broad cultural convergence. Its basic character is transnational. Converging first names is an example of cultural convergence. Growing number of inter-racial, inter-country, inter-caste, inter-religion marriages is another example of that. Also, you may have noticed that children today are likely to be more multi-lingual than we or our parents were.

I am not really sure whether it is a good trend after all but yes it is inevitable now.As I always maintain we do not inherit our heritage from our parents but borrow it from our children.My job is to strive to maintain and nurture our unique way of life which is distinctly our own and side by side celebrating our diversity in this awesome milieu called India which has no parallel on the planet.