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Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas surprised the world last week, announcing that they are parents to a baby born via surrogate.

The gender or baby name hasn’t been revealed yet. But we are all anticipating a beautiful Indian name for their child. Indian name

When naming our first child 23 years ago, I quickly realized there is another huge factor at play: pronunciation. Not only did I want my non-Indian husband — whose last name is actually White — to properly pronounce the baby’s name, but I even anticipated the way a teacher would read it out loud in front of the whole class on the first day of school.

Pronunciations ranged from Velveeta to Kaviter to Vita to Ka-veee-duh. To people who ask, “Why don’t you just correct people when they say it wrong?” I say: It gets SO tiresome. So when I was pregnant with a baby girl, whose last name was going to be “White,” I was determined to find a name that had a precious meaning but an easy phonetic pronunciation.

Our short list of favorite names were all two-syllable, easy-to-spell names. The winner? Priya, which means “beloved one,” and is pronounced right 99 percent of the time, even though her Starbucks cups sometimes have “Preeya” or “Pria.”

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