Do you know American names of NRI ?

NRI changes nameMany Indian who choose to work in USA, also comes up with their American names because either their name is a tongue twister for Americans or they want to integrate themselves with American and such integration begins with easy to pronounce names.
Don’t be surprised, if some of your friend tells you that he would like to call himself Venky because Venkatesh or Venkteshwar name is too hard to pronounce. However, underlying greed is to integrate themselves with American and wanted to recognize among their American colleagues and friends they s/he is just like them. Also on resume , email address it sounds easy to write and pronounce. Here is the partial list of Indian names and its English ( Angrej ) names.

Indian Name
American/British Name
Ajay
AJ
Akshay
Aks
Arvind
Andy
Ashwin
Ash
Farukh
Far
Harish
Harry
Harshvardhan
Harry
Imtiaz
Mtz
Jagadish
Jag
Jayesh
Jay
Mansoor
Many
Mukesh
Mike
Natrajan
Nat
Nishith
Nish
Nikhil
Nik or Nick
Prabhakar
Prab
Ramesh
Ram
Rasik
Ray
Sameer
Sam
Satinder
Sat
Saumil
Sam
Shambhu
Sam
Shyamal
Sam
Smarudhi
Smoothy
Srinivas
Srini
Varun
Warren
Venkatesh
Venky
Venkateshwar
Venky
Vijay
VJ
Vikram
Vicky or Vick or Vik
Vikrant
Vicky or Vick or Vik
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