What does the name Aiyappan mean?

Aiyappan means "Lord Ayyappa, son of two fathers". It is a boy's name of Tamil origin.

Aiyappan

Aiyappan means Lord Ayyappa, son of two fathers.

Gender	boy
Origin	Tamil
Language	Tamil
Starts with	A

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Lord Ayyappa, son of two fathers”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

Ayyappan — Lord Ayyappa, divine son of Shiva and Vishnu
Manikandan — Lord Ayyappa
Manikanta — With a jewel around the neck, Ayyappa

More boys' names of Tamil origin

Karthikeyan — Son of Krittika stars, Murugan
Murugan — Lord Murugan, youth
Kavi — Poet
Tharun — Young, tender
Aadhi — Beginning, the first
Iniyan — Sweet person

Where this comes from

Aiyappan has no entry in the classical Sanskrit dictionary we check against, which is common for modern and non-Sanskrit names. Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.