Kurinji

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Hill flower, Kurinji ecosystem”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Kurinjimalar — Hill flower, Kurinji bloom
• Venkatesh — Lord of the Venkata hill
• Venkata — Name of a hill, Venkateswara
• Niladri — Blue mountain, Puri Jagannath temple hill
• Manali — A bird; hill station of the mind
• Govardhan — Lifter of Govardhan hill, protector

More girls' names of Dravidian origin

• Nila — Blue, moon, river of moonlight
• Suma — Flower, blossom
• Nanma — Goodness, virtue, excellence
• Raji — Shining, glowing, Kerala traditional
• Komala — Tender, delicate, soft
• Nilambari — Blue sky, wearing blue sky

Where this comes from

Kurinji 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.