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Murugan name meaning

“young”

Letters
7
Syllables
3
First letter
M
Origin
Tamil
Category
Indian Names
Gender
♂ Boy
Peak 1970s: 15.4%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Indian table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s15.4%
1980s9.3%
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Indian Names: MTamil origin

Murugan is a male Tamil name, that of a war deity, from a Tamil word meaning 'young'.

What does Murugan mean?

Young

In Malay: muda

Sources (2)

About the name Murugan

Murugan is the name of a war deity in Tamil tradition, now also identified with Skanda, and comes from a Tamil word meaning 'young'. It is widely registered in Malaysia. According to JPN, it peaked in the 1970s with 1,577 baby boys.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginTamil
SyllablesMu-ru-gan
First letterIndian Names starting with M
Tamil scriptமுருகன்

Murugan in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
Boy: 1,577 · 15.4%
1980s
Boy: 751 · 9.3%
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Murugan 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. Behind the Name: Murugan · behindthename.com · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: Murugan · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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