Telugu Name Generator

Authentic Telugu names from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana

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Generate real Telugu names with the right given-name and surname pairings: Sanskrit-rooted first names, caste and community surnames like Reddy, Naidu, Chowdary and Goud, and traditional family-name-first forms such as Kondapalli Venkateswara Rao. Useful for fiction, games, sample data and baby-name shortlists.

About Telugu names

Telugu names belong to the roughly 80 million speakers of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, and they follow conventions that differ from North Indian naming. The traditional order puts the family name (inti peru, literally "house name") first, then the given name, then often a caste or honorific word: Kondapalli Venkateswara Rao, Gottipati Narasimha Reddy, Vemuri Subrahmanyam. In cities and abroad the order usually flips to Western style, and the house name shrinks to an initial, which is why you see forms like K. Srinivas Reddy or simply Srinivas Reddy.

The last element tells you a lot. Reddy, Naidu, Chowdary, Kamma house names like Yarlagadda and Vallabhaneni, and Raju point to dominant agrarian and landholding communities; Goud, Yadav and Mudiraj are common across Telangana; Sastry, Sarma, Murthy, Avadhani and Somayajulu are Brahmin; Guguloth, Bhukya and Dharavath are Lambadi tribal house names. Given names are mostly Sanskrit, and the Tirupati shrine's influence shows in how many boys are Venkatesh, Srinivas, Balaji or Venkata Ramana, while girls carry Lakshmi, Padmavathi and Sravani. Older generations favored two-part names (Appa Rao, Subba Rao, Nageswara Rao, Ramulu, Yellaiah); people born after 2000 lean toward short forms like Teja, Charan, Sahithi and Harika.

This list mixes all of those registers so a three-generation family, a Hyderabad office roster or a Guntur village can each be named believably.

How to choose Telugu names

  • Decide on name order before you pick: use house name first (Kanneganti Mohan Rao) for rural, older or formal settings, and given name first with a caste surname (Mohan Rao Kanneganti or Mohan Reddy) for urban and diaspora characters.
  • Match the surname to the region: Chowdary and Naidu surnames with Kamma house names read as coastal Andhra, Goud and Yadav with -aiah and -ulu endings read as Telangana, and Raju or Varma suggest the Kshatriya families of the Godavari districts.
  • Signal generation through form: Nageswara Rao, Subbalakshmi and Ramulu feel like grandparents, Srinivas and Sujatha like parents, and Teja, Harika or Sahithi like students born after 2000.
  • Many Telugu men use Kumar, Babu or Prasad as a second given-name element rather than a surname (Ravi Kumar, Suresh Babu, Durga Prasad), so a full name can legitimately have three parts.
  • Women in traditional households often carry Devi, Kumari or the suffix -amma (Narayanamma, Seshamma) in place of a family surname; use this sparingly for period or village settings.

Frequently asked questions

How are Telugu names different from other Indian names?

Telugu names traditionally place the family or house name first and the given name second, which is the reverse of Hindi practice, and they use community words such as Reddy, Naidu, Chowdary and Goud far more than the North. Telugu given names are also heavily shaped by the Tirupati Venkateswara tradition and by regional deities like Kanaka Durga and Mallikarjuna.

What does a Telugu house name (inti peru) mean?

An inti peru is an inherited family name that usually comes from an ancestral village (Kondapalli, Yarlagadda), an occupation or a nickname. It passes down the male line and is often abbreviated to an initial in everyday use, so Kondapalli Ravi Kumar becomes K. Ravi Kumar.

Are these names suitable for both Andhra Pradesh and Telangana?

Yes. The list deliberately includes coastal Andhra Kamma and Reddy names, Rayalaseema forms, and Telangana names ending in -aiah, -ulu and -amma as well as Goud, Yadav and Lambadi house names, so you can pick the register that fits your setting.

Can I use these names for a fictional character or a dataset?

Yes. They are ordinary real-world names and are not owned by anyone. Just avoid reusing the full name of a well-known public figure, such as a film star or politician, for a character meant to be fictional.

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A: 31 names

  • Abhiram Reddy
  • Adithya Naidu
  • Aishwarya Reddy
  • Ajay Kumar Varma
  • Akhil Reddy
  • Akhila Naidu
  • Alapati Satyanarayana
  • Alapati Suresh Kumar
  • Alekhya Chowdary
  • Amrutha Varma
  • Anand Goud
  • Anasuya Reddy
  • Anil Kumar Reddy
  • Anirudh Naidu
  • Anitha Naidu
  • Anjali Naidu
  • Anjana Varma
  • Anjaneyulu Varma
  • Ankitha Chowdary
  • Annapurna Devi
  • Annavarapu Dasaradha Rao
  • Anumolu Suryakumari
  • Anupama Reddy
  • Anuradha Goud
  • Anusha Varma
  • Aparna Murthy
  • Aravind Naidu
  • Archana Goud
  • Aruna Chowdary
  • Aruna Kumari
  • Atluri Raghava Rao

B: 25 names

  • Bala Krishna Naidu
  • Balaiah Yadav
  • Balakrishna Goud
  • Bathula Mallaiah
  • Bhanu Prakash Naidu
  • Bhanu Priya Reddy
  • Bharathi Reddy
  • Bhargav Varma
  • Bhargava Reddy
  • Bhargavi Naidu
  • Bhaskar Rao Kalidindi
  • Bhavana Goud
  • Bhavani Goud
  • Bhavani Prasanna
  • Bhavani Shankar Chowdary
  • Bhavya Reddy
  • Bhimavarapu Krishna Murthy
  • Bhukya Lakshman Naik
  • Bhukya Srinivas
  • Bhuvan Varma
  • Bhuvaneswari Chowdary
  • Bikkina Koteswara Rao
  • Bindu Varma
  • Bollineni Venkata Ramana
  • Boyapati Srinu

C: 13 names

  • Chaitanya Kumar Reddy
  • Chaitra Reddy
  • Chakri Goud
  • Chalasani Ramesh
  • Chandana Reddy
  • Chandra Sekhar Reddy
  • Chandrakala Goud
  • Charan Reddy
  • Charitha Reddy
  • Chennupati Rangaiah
  • Cherukuri Sambasiva Rao
  • Chinmayi Chowdary
  • Chintala Eswar

D: 15 names

  • Dandamudi Ravindranath
  • Dasari Appa Rao
  • Deepa Reddy
  • Deepika Naidu
  • Deepthi Sharma
  • Devarakonda Raju
  • Dharavath Laxman
  • Dharma Teja Chowdary
  • Dheeraj Naidu
  • Dinesh Yadav
  • Divya Reddy
  • Divya Sree Naidu
  • Donthu Satyanarayana
  • Duggirala Subbarao
  • Durga Bhavani

E: 2 names

  • Eswar Goud
  • Eswari Naidu

G: 21 names

  • Gadde Ramachandra Rao
  • Gajula Ravindra
  • Gandikota Anjaneyulu
  • Ganesh Goud
  • Gangadhar Achari
  • Gangamma Naidu
  • Gangula Ravi
  • Garikapati Sudarshan
  • Gayathri Sastry
  • Geetha Sastry
  • Geethanjali Goud
  • Giridhar Naidu
  • Girish Reddy
  • Gnaneswari Reddy
  • Goli Narasimhulu
  • Gopal Naidu
  • Gottipati Narasimha Rao
  • Gowri Sastry
  • Gowtham Reddy
  • Guguloth Ramesh
  • Gunturu Seshagiri Rao

H: 15 names

  • Hamsa Varma
  • Hari Babu Reddy
  • Hari Prasad Naidu
  • Hari Priya Varma
  • Harika Nalluri
  • Harini Varma
  • Haritha Chowdary
  • Harsha Vardhan Chowdary
  • Hasini Chowdary
  • Hemalatha Naidu
  • Hemanth Kumar Reddy
  • Hemavathi Chowdary
  • Hima Bindu Varma
  • Hima Sree Goud
  • Hymavathi Naidu

I: 2 names

  • Indira Reddy
  • Inturi Kotaiah

J: 12 names

  • Jagadish Varma
  • Jampala Venkateswarlu
  • Jasti Rama Mohan Rao
  • Jaswanth Chowdary
  • Jayalakshmi Goud
  • Jayamma Naidu
  • Jayanthi Reddy
  • Jayashree Chowdary
  • Jayasree Reddy
  • Jhansi Lakshmi
  • Jithendra Chowdary
  • Jyothi Lakshmi

K: 47 names

  • Kakarla Narayana
  • Kalluri Narsing Rao
  • Kalpana Chowdary
  • Kalva Srinivas Rao
  • Kalyan Chowdary
  • Kalyani Reddy
  • Kamala Chowdary
  • Kamesh Naidu
  • Kameswari Devi
  • Kameswari Sastry
  • Kamineni Hanumantha Rao
  • Kanaka Durga
  • Kancharla Krishna Mohan
  • Kandula Gangadhar
  • Kankipati Bhaskar
  • Kanneganti Mohan Rao
  • Karthik Reddy
  • Karunakar Goud
  • Katragadda Ramakrishna
  • Kavitha Reddy
  • Kavuri Srinivasa Raju
  • Kavya Naidu
  • Keerthana Reddy

K, continued

  • Keerthi Priya Naidu
  • Keerthi Varma
  • Kethireddy Srisailam
  • Kilari Ramaiah
  • Kilaru Ramesh Babu
  • Kiran Kumar Reddy
  • Kishore Kumar Varma
  • Koduri Prasad
  • Kolli Ramulu
  • Kommineni Ravi Shankar
  • Kommuri Anjaiah
  • Komuraiah Yadav
  • Kondaiah Goud
  • Kondapalli Venkateswara Rao
  • Kondeti Subramanyam
  • Kosaraju Lakshmana
  • Koteswara Rao Boppana
  • Koteswari Goud
  • Koushik Goud
  • Krishna Priya Reddy
  • Krishnaveni Chowdary
  • Kunchala Ramanjaneyulu
  • Kurra Mallesham
  • Kusuma Reddy

L: 13 names

  • Lahari Naidu
  • Lakshmi Devi Goud
  • Lakshmi Narasimha Reddy
  • Lakshmi Prasanna
  • Lakshmi Sowjanya
  • Lakshmi Tulasi
  • Lalitha Reddy
  • Lanka Seshadri
  • Lasya Varma
  • Lavanya Reddy
  • Leela Sastry
  • Lingaiah Goud
  • Lokesh Naidu

M: 35 names

  • Madala Veerababu
  • Madhavi Latha
  • Madhavi Naidu
  • Madhumitha Chowdary
  • Madhuri Chowdary
  • Madhusudhan Naidu
  • Maganti Bhaskara Rao
  • Mahalakshmi Naidu
  • Mahathi Naidu
  • Mahesh Goud
  • Mallela Ramanaiah
  • Malleswari Goud
  • Mallikarjun Goud
  • Mallikarjuna Sarma
  • Mamatha Goud
  • Manasa Sharma
  • Manasvi Reddy
  • Mandava Purushotham
  • Mangamma Goud
  • Manikanta Goud
  • Manjula Goud
  • Manjusha Naidu
  • Manohar Varma
  • Manoj Kumar Varma
  • Meena Chowdary
  • Meenakshi Sastry
  • Meghana Naidu
  • Mekala Saidulu
  • Mohan Babu Reddy
  • Motaparthi Venkateswara Rao
  • Mounika Goud
  • Mudunuri Rama Raju
  • Munagala Venkata Subba Rao
  • Murali Krishna Naidu
  • Mutyala Ramakoteswara Rao

N: 23 names

  • Nadella Sudhakar
  • Nagalakshmi Chowdary
  • Nagamani Chowdary
  • Nagaraju Mekala
  • Nagendra Reddy
  • Nagesh Naidu
  • Nageswara Naidu
  • Nandini Reddy
  • Nannapaneni Jaya Prakash
  • Narasimha Yadav
  • Narayanamma Goud
  • Narendra Goud
  • Naresh Yadav
  • Narsimha Goud
  • Navya Chowdary
  • Neelima Naidu
  • Niharika Reddy
  • Nikhil Varma
  • Nikhila Naidu
  • Nikhitha Chowdary
  • Nimmagadda Venkata Rao
  • Nirmala Chowdary
  • Nithin Reddy

O: 1 name

  • Oruganti Parthasarathy

P: 41 names

  • Padma Naidu
  • Padmaja Naidu
  • Padmavathi Sastry
  • Padmini Varma
  • Paladugu Venkateswarlu
  • Pallavi Sharma
  • Pamarthi Nagabhushanam
  • Pardhu Naidu
  • Parvathi Naidu
  • Pasham Yadagiri
  • Pasupuleti Madhava Rao
  • Patibandla Gopichand
  • Pavan Kumar Naidu
  • Pavani Goud
  • Pavithra Reddy
  • Pawan Reddy
  • Peddi Venkataiah
  • Pemmasani Koteswara Rao
  • Penmetsa Pardha Saradhi
  • Phani Kumar Sastry

P, continued

  • Pinnamaneni Venkata Ratnam
  • Pochaiah Yadav
  • Polavarapu Srihari
  • Pooja Varma
  • Poornima Chowdary
  • Potluri Rajendra Prasad
  • Pradeep Yadav
  • Prakash Goud
  • Pranathi Goud
  • Pranay Goud
  • Prasanna Lakshmi
  • Prasanthi Varma
  • Prathyusha Varma
  • Pratyusha Reddy
  • Pravallika Reddy
  • Praveen Yadav
  • Priya Goud
  • Priyanka Reddy
  • Pulipati Suryanarayana
  • Pulla Rao Yarlagadda
  • Pushpa Goud

R: 37 names

  • Radha Chowdary
  • Radhika Varma
  • Raghavendra Goud
  • Raghu Goud
  • Rahul Reddy
  • Rajaiah Yadav
  • Rajani Goud
  • Rajasekhar Naidu
  • Rajendra Reddy
  • Rajesh Yadav
  • Rajeswari Chowdary
  • Raju Yadav
  • Rajyalakshmi Chowdary
  • Rakesh Yadav
  • Rama Mohan Naidu
  • Ramadevi Goud
  • Ramakrishna Reddy
  • Ramavath Ravi
  • Ramesh Goud
  • Rameshwar Naidu
  • Ramulu Goud
  • Ranga Rao Vemuri
  • Rani Naidu
  • Rathnamala Reddy
  • Ratna Kumari
  • Ratna Reddy
  • Ratnamala Goud
  • Ravali Setty
  • Ravi Kumar Yadav
  • Ravindra Babu Goud
  • Ravuri Satish
  • Renuka Devi
  • Revathi Reddy
  • Rohini Reddy
  • Rohith Naidu
  • Roja Naidu
  • Rupa Chowdary

S: 105 names

  • Sagar Reddy
  • Sahasra Reddy
  • Sahithi Goud
  • Sai Kiran Reddy
  • Sai Kumar Naidu
  • Sai Lakshmi Naidu
  • Sai Teja Chowdary
  • Saidulu Goud
  • Sailaja Naidu
  • Saketh Naidu
  • Samatha Reddy
  • Sambaiah Goud
  • Sambasiva Varma
  • Sandeep Kumar Reddy
  • Sandhya Chowdary
  • Sandhya Rani Naidu
  • Sanka Venkata Subbarao
  • Santosh Kumar Reddy
  • Santoshi Goud
  • Sarada Chowdary
  • Saranya Goud
  • Saraswathi Murthy
  • Sarath Chandra Varma
  • Sarita Chowdary
  • Saroja Goud
  • Sarojini Varma
  • Sarvani Avadhani
  • Sasikala Naidu
  • Satish Goud
  • Satish Kumar Reddy
  • Satya Sree Goud
  • Satyavani Naidu
  • Satyavathi Naidu
  • Savitri Naidu
  • Seelam Chandrasekhar

S, continued

  • Seetha Mahalakshmi
  • Seshu Varma
  • Shalini Reddy
  • Shanthi Naidu
  • Shashank Chowdary
  • Shilpa Naidu
  • Shiva Kumar Yadav
  • Shobha Rani
  • Shravya Reddy
  • Shreya Reddy
  • Shyam Sundar Naidu
  • Siddharth Naidu
  • Sindhu Varma
  • Sirisha Goud
  • Sneha Latha Naidu
  • Sneha Reddy
  • Soujanya Naidu
  • Sowmya Reddy
  • Spandana Goud
  • Sravana Lakshmi
  • Sravani Chowdary
  • Sravanthi Varma
  • Sravya Naidu
  • Sravya Sree Reddy
  • Sree Vidya Reddy
  • Sreedevi Naidu
  • Sreeja Reddy
  • Sreekanth Reddy
  • Sreelakshmi Reddy
  • Sreenivas Naidu
  • Sreevani Naidu
  • Sridevi Naidu
  • Sriharsha Reddy
  • Srikanth Goud
  • Srilatha Naidu

S, continued

  • Srilekha Varma
  • Srinidhi Chowdary
  • Srinivas Reddy
  • Srinivasulu Yadav
  • Srinu Goud
  • Sriram Goud
  • Srividya Naidu
  • Srujana Reddy
  • Sruthi Reddy
  • Subba Rao Vadlamudi
  • Subbalakshmi Chowdary
  • Subhadra Reddy
  • Subhashini Reddy
  • Sudha Lakshmi Goud
  • Sudha Rani
  • Sudharani Goud
  • Suhasini Goud
  • Sujatha Murthy
  • Sukanya Naidu
  • Sumalatha Varma
  • Sumana Varma
  • Sumanth Varma
  • Sumathi Chowdary
  • Suneetha Naidu
  • Sunil Kumar Varma
  • Sunitha Mudiraj
  • Sunkara Mallesh
  • Supriya Goud
  • Suresh Babu Vallabhaneni
  • Surya Prakash Reddy
  • Suryakantham Reddy
  • Sushma Naidu
  • Swapna Reddy
  • Swarnalatha Chowdary
  • Swathi Reddy

T: 14 names

  • Tadiparthi Ravi Kumar
  • Talluri Krishnaiah
  • Tanuja Varma
  • Tarun Kumar Chowdary
  • Tatineni Raghavendra Rao
  • Teja Naidu
  • Tejaswi Chowdary
  • Tejaswini Goud
  • Thota Lingaiah
  • Thota Venkanna
  • Tirumala Somayajulu
  • Trivikram Varma
  • Tulasi Goud
  • Tummala Nageswara Rao

U: 5 names

  • Uday Kiran Goud
  • Uma Maheswari
  • Umamaheswara Rao
  • Uppalapati Balarama Krishna
  • Usha Rani Pantulu

V: 33 names

  • Vaishnavi Varma
  • Vamsi Krishna Chowdary
  • Vamsi Varma
  • Vanaja Goud
  • Vani Sastry
  • Vanka Sreenivasulu
  • Varalakshmi Sastry
  • Vasanth Chowdary
  • Vasantha Lakshmi
  • Vasireddy Venkata Subbaiah
  • Vasundhara Devi
  • Veeramachaneni Hanumantha Rao
  • Veeranjaneyulu Goud
  • Velagapudi Prasad
  • Vempati Seshaiah
  • Vemuri Subrahmanyam
  • Venkat Goud
  • Venkata Ramana Naidu
  • Venkatesh Goud
  • Vennela Chowdary
  • Venu Gopal Reddy
  • Vidya Sastry
  • Vijay Bhaskar Naidu
  • Vijaya Naidu
  • Vijayalakshmi Naidu
  • Vimala Goud
  • Vinay Kumar Chowdary
  • Vineela Naidu
  • Vishnu Priya Chowdary
  • Vishnu Vardhan Naidu
  • Vivek Naidu
  • Vuppala Bhumaiah
  • Vyjayanthi Reddy

Y: 10 names

  • Yadagiri Goud
  • Yalamanchili Ganesh
  • Yamini Chowdary
  • Yamuna Goud
  • Yarlagadda Venkata Krishna
  • Yashoda Reddy
  • Yashwanth Reddy
  • Yellamma Goud
  • Yeluri Kondala Rao
  • Yerramsetti Subbaiah