I totally disagree. We should use historical names, and why not!
Honor those of old, I love the old names, especially of old Sikh warriors and heroes. A shame they have 'fallen out of favor'. Hari, Phula, Banda, Shyam, Jassa, etc. etc. are great names. As usual the discussion veers to the esoteric. All other major religions utilize the names of either ancestors or religious figures, and in that tradition is the essence of the word itself. Part of our amnestic disease as Sikhs is that we cannot seemingly become truly aware of our own history. At a layman level, we are too seemingly concerned with other superficial matters to think more deeply on the significance of how we act, speak and indeed even name our children reflects on our respect and thinking of the past. You can apply this same argument, I believe, to the sad plight of our historical monuments, our historical artifacts and documents and for that matter language and traditions. Call me wrong, that is your right. But I believe more and more, that for punjab, "There is no culture but agriculture". (Now when I say the above, I do not apply it to the more cerebral of you who post the very Gurbani verses with translations and all, I am talking of the true reality on the ground, and especially in Punjab itself. We seem to believe that no price is too high for economic and personal profit, and those of us who are more educated are too bothered to duke it out with the trash that run our politics and religion).
Sincerely