What does the name Kaliannan mean?

Kaliannan means "Graceful and dark one". It is a boy's name of Tamil origin.

Kaliannan

Kaliannan means Graceful and dark one.

Gender	boy
Origin	Tamil
Language	Tamil
Starts with	K

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Graceful and dark one”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

Riya — Singer, graceful
Anika — Goddess Durga, graceful
Shivangi — Beautiful part of Shiva, graceful
Zaina — Beautiful, graceful, radiant
Hansika — A little swan, graceful and white
Jasmine — Jasmine flower, fragrant, graceful

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

Kaliannan 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.