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Muniandy name meaning

“the Tamil deity Muniyandi (muni 'sage')”

Letters
8
Syllables
4
First letter
M
Origin
Tamil
Category
Indian Names
Gender
♂ Boy
Peak 1940s: 14.7%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Indian table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s14.7%
1950s14.2%
1960s12.6%
1970s8.2%
1980s5.9%
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Indian Names: MTamil origin

Muniandy is a Tamil boy's name, a spelling of Muniyandi, a Tamil folk deity; its element muni means 'sage'.

What does Muniandy mean?

The Tamil deity Muniyandi (muni 'sage')

In Malay: nama dewa Tamil Muniyandi (muni 'pertapa')

Sources (4)

About the name Muniandy

Muniandy is a spelling of Muniyandi, the name of a Tamil folk deity also known as Muneeswarar. It is made of muni, 'saint, sage' in the Tamil Lexicon and in Sanskrit, and āṇṭi, the Tamil word for a Śaiva mendicant. According to JPN, it peaked in the 1960s with 1,045 baby boys.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginTamil
SyllablesMu-ni-an-dy
First letterIndian Names starting with M

Muniandy in official JPN data

1940s
Boy: 480 · 14.7%
1950s
Boy: 950 · 14.2%
1960s
Boy: 1,045 · 12.6%
1970s
Boy: 841 · 8.2%
1980s
Boy: 477 · 5.9%
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Muniandy 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. Wikipedia: Muneeswarar (Muniyandi) · en.wikipedia.org · meaning
  2. Tamil Lexicon: முனி · dsal.uchicago.edu · meaning
  3. Tamil Lexicon: ஆண்டி · dsal.uchicago.edu · meaning
  4. Wiktionary: muni · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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