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Ravichandran name meaning

“sun and moon”

Letters
12
Syllables
4
First letter
R
Origin
Tamil · Sanskrit
Category
Indian Names
Gender
♂ Boy
Peak 1960s: 6.7%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Indian table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s–
1960s6.7%
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Indian Names: RMeaning the sunTamil origin

Ravichandran is a Tamil boy's name joining Ravi 'sun' and Chandran 'moon'.

What does Ravichandran mean?

Sun and moon

In Malay: matahari dan bulan

#The sun#The moon

Sources (2)

About the name Ravichandran

Ravichandran is a Tamil name joining Ravi, the Sanskrit word for sun, with Chandran, the Tamil form of candra meaning moon. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1960s with 555 baby boys.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginTamil, Sanskrit
SyllablesRa-vi-chan-dran
First letterIndian Names starting with R

Ravichandran in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
Boy: 555 · 6.7%
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 Ravichandran 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: रवि · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: சந்திரன் · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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