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Ramachandran name meaning

“Rama; moon”

Letters
12
Syllables
4
First letter
R
Origin
Sanskrit · Tamil
Category
Indian Names
Gender
♂ Boy
Peak 1950s: 4.1%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Indian table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s4.1%
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Indian Names: RMeaning the moonSanskrit origin

Ramachandran is a male name combining Rama and candra 'moon'; it is also another name for Rama.

What does Ramachandran mean?

Rama; moon

In Malay: Rama; bulan

#The moon

Sources (2)

About the name Ramachandran

Ramachandran is a Tamil/Malayalam-style form of Ramachandra, combining the deity Rama and candra 'moon'. Ramachandra is also another name for Rama. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1950s with 271 baby boys.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginSanskrit, Tamil
SyllablesRa-ma-chan-dran
First letterIndian Names starting with R
Devanagari scriptरामचंद्रन

Ramachandran in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
Boy: 271 · 4.1%
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 Ramachandran 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: Ramachandra · behindthename.com · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: राम · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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