Rohit

Rohit takes its name from the Sanskrit rohita, meaning red, and is an old epithet for the rising sun, a red deer, or the first blush of dawn on a mountain. The color word became a boy's name in Hindi-speaking India and stayed there, steady, unglamorous, a classroom staple in the late twentieth century. Two short syllables, ROH-hit, the aspirated h softening the middle. The Indian cricket captain Rohit Sharma has given it fresh currency for a global audience. Warm, dawn-colored, and so familiar in India that it reads almost transparently.