All Muhammadans

Certain indications as to origin may also be deduced from the proper names in

use among Baloches. All Muhammadans have to a great extent abandoned their
original nomenclature, and adopted the system of religious names drawn from
the Quran, the various divine names, the Prophet, the early Khalifas, and other
persons famed in the history of the religion. Nevertheless, original names have
survived in many languages, especially in Persian; and Persian, as well as Arabic
names, are in use throughout India, Afghanistan, and Balochistan. There is
among the Baloches also a very large and important element which cannot be
derived from either of these sources.
I have made a list of 190 proper names, including all the names I have found in
the older poetry and in the genealogies. Of these only fifty-three are Arabic
names, twenty are Persian or compound Persian and Arabic (as Dost
Muhammad, Imam Bakhsh, etc.), four are Turkish, and twenty-three seem to be
of Indian origin, although mostly not identical with modern Hindu names. The
remaining ninety are names peculiar to the Baloohes, of which a good many are
capable of explanation from Balochi or from the older Iranian languages, and I
am of opinion that the Arabic element is less important than among most
Muhammadan races: