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Perumal name meaning

“great person”

Letters
7
Syllables
3
First letter
P
Origin
Tamil
Category
Indian Names
Gender
♂ Boy
Peak 1940s: 5.5%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Indian table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s5.5%
1950s–
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Indian Names: PMeaning leadershipTamil origin

Perumal is a Tamil male name meaning 'great person', also a name for a form of Vishnu.

What does Perumal mean?

Great person

In Malay: orang yang agung

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Sources (2)

About the name Perumal

Perumal is a Tamil male name from perumāḷ (பெருமாள்), combining perum 'large, grand' and āḷ 'person', that is 'great person'. In Hinduism, Perumal is a name for a form of Vishnu. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1940s with 178 baby boys.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginTamil
SyllablesPe-ru-mal
First letterIndian Names starting with P
Tamil scriptபெருமாள்

Perumal in official JPN data

1940s
Boy: 178 · 5.5%
1950s
not in the top 10
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 Perumal 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: பெருமாள் · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: Perumal · en.wiktionary.org · origin

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