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Mahendran name meaning

“the great Indra”

Letters
9
Syllables
3
First letter
M
Origin
Sanskrit · Tamil
Category
Indian Names
Gender
♂ Boy
Peak 1980s: 5.8%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Indian table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s–
1980s5.8%
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Indian Names: MMeaning strengthSanskrit origin

Mahendran is a male Tamil name, a form of Mahendra from Sanskrit meaning 'the great Indra'.

What does Mahendran mean?

The great Indra

In Malay: Indra yang agung

#Strength

Sources (2)

About the name Mahendran

Mahendran is the Tamil form of Mahendra, combining Sanskrit mahā 'great' and Indra, the name of a Hindu deity. According to JPN, it peaked in the 1980s with 469 baby boys.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginSanskrit, Tamil
SyllablesMa-hen-dran
First letterIndian Names starting with M
Tamil scriptமகேந்திரன்

Mahendran in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
Boy: 469 · 5.8%
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Mahendran as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Indian table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: Mahendra · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Behind the Name: Mahendra · behindthename.com · meaning

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