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Sivakumar name meaning

“son of Shiva (Shiva: benign, auspicious; kumara: boy, son)”

Letters
9
Syllables
4
First letter
S
Origin
Tamil · Sanskrit
Category
Indian Names
Gender
♂ Boy
Peak 1970s: 8.6%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Indian table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s8.6%
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Indian Names: SMeaning faithTamil origin

Sivakumar is a Tamil boy's name meaning 'son of Shiva', from Sanskrit Siva and Kumar.

What does Sivakumar mean?

Son of Shiva (Shiva: benign, auspicious; kumara: boy, son)

In Malay: anak Shiva (Shiva: baik hati, membawa tuah; kumara: budak lelaki, anak)

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Sources (3)

About the name Sivakumar

Sivakumar is a Tamil boy's name made of Siva (Shiva) and Kumar. Shiva comes from Sanskrit śiva, 'benign, auspicious', and Kumar from kumāra, 'boy, son'. Together they can be read as 'son of Shiva'. According to JPN, it peaked in the 1970s with 887 baby boys.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginTamil, Sanskrit
SyllablesSi-va-ku-mar
First letterIndian Names starting with S
Tamil scriptசிவகுமார்

Sivakumar in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
Boy: 887 · 8.6%
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 Sivakumar 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: Shiva · behindthename.com · meaning
  2. Behind the Name: Kumara · behindthename.com · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: Sivakumar · en.wiktionary.org · origin

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