Sinhala Baby Names With Meanings

Sinhalese names are typically composed of two or three parts. The first part is the patronymic name of the father, ancestor name, or ‘house name’, which often has the suffix ‘-ge’ at the end of it. This is known as the ‘Ge’ name (ge meaning house in Sinhalese). The second part is the personal name (given name), and the third part is the surname.

Full names can be rather long and hence are often shortened by omitting or abbreviating the family name and one of the given names, as in R. M. S. Ariyaratna.

Sinhalese names are formed based on the Sinhala language, which evolved differently from other Indo-Aryan languages due to Sri Lanka’s geographical separation from the rest of the Indian subcontinent. The name “Sinhala” is a derivative of “siṃha,” the Sanskrit word for ‘lion’. The Sinhala language sports a number of features that render it especially intriguing to the scholar of South Asian languages and their linguistic history