What does the name Annadurai mean?

Annadurai means "King of rice, generous ruler". It is a boy's name of Tamil origin.

Annadurai

Annadurai means King of rice, generous ruler.

Gender	boy
Origin	Tamil
Language	Tamil
Starts with	A

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “King of rice, generous ruler”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

Akshata — Rice, indestructible
Dileep — One who illuminates, generous king
Bhuribai — Abundant lady, generous woman
Suresh — God of gods, ruler of all
Eeshan — Lord Shiva, the supreme ruler and divine lord
Raj — King, ruler and sovereign

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

Annadurai 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.