[1] According to the Grhya Sutras, Namakarana ceremony is typically performed on the tenth or the twelfth day after birth.
The rite of passage also includes a gathering of friends and relatives of the baby's parents, typically with gifts and for a feast.
[2] A boy's name by ancient conventions is typically of two or four syllables, starting with a sonant, a semivowel in the middle, and ending in a visarga.
A girl's name is typically an odd number of syllables, ending in a long ā or ī, resonant and easy to pronounce.
[2] Unpleasant, inauspicious, or words that easily transform into bad or evil words must be avoided, state the Gryhasutras, while the preferred names are those affiliated with a deity, virtues, good qualities, lucky stars, constellation, derivatives of the name of the father, or mother, or the place of birth, or beautiful elements of nature (trees, flowers, birds).