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Names with "bad" meanings have been quite common in different periods in India, though they are not very common in the dominant culture today. They are somewhat more prevalent as the common names (as opposed to the formal name) by which people are called familiarly: thus, bobA as the common name of a boy will be quite familiar to Bengalis, and bobA means mute, but bobA will rarely appear as a formal name. (The common word for deaf in Bengali is kAlA, which also appears as a common name, but the Bengali name element kAlA etymologically derives from black instead) For people from the past, there is a poet called mUka, which means mute (mU/mav means to tie, mUka means tied/tongue-tied but is the common word for mute). I am sure I can find more examples if I just think hard.