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The name Munusamy

Letters
8
Syllables
4
First letter
M
Origin
Tamil
Category
Indian Names
Gender
♂ Boy
Peak 1940s: 4.8%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Indian table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s4.8%
1950s4.6%
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
1

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Munusamy

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Indian Names: M

Munusamy is a Tamil male name; the element samy means 'god' or 'master', but the full meaning cannot be determined.

About the name Munusamy

Munusamy is a Tamil male name that was once common in Malaysia. Its final element, samy, is a spelling of Tamil cāmi (சாமி), meaning 'god', 'chief' or 'master'. The meaning of the munu- element cannot be determined, so no overall meaning is given. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1950s with 305 baby boys. JPN counts the first word of registered names.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginTamil
SyllablesMu-nu-sa-my
First letterIndian Names starting with M

Munusamy in official JPN data

1940s
Boy: 155 · 4.8%
1950s
Boy: 305 · 4.6%
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Munusamy 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: சாமி (cāmi) · en.wiktionary.org · origin

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