What does the name Manjunatha mean?

Manjunatha means "Lord of the misty peaks, Shiva". It is a boy's name of Kannada origin.

Manjunatha

Manjunatha means Lord of the misty peaks, Shiva.

Gender	boy
Origin	Kannada
Language	Kannada
Starts with	M

Names with a similar meaning

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

Manjunath — Lord of the misty peaks, Shiva
Rudra — Lord Shiva, storm god
Ishaan — Sun, Shiva, north-east direction
Shiv — Auspicious, Lord Shiva
Shivansh — Part of Lord Shiva
Ishanvi — Goddess Parvati, gift of Shiva

More boys' names of Kannada origin

Puneeth — Purified, holy, sacred
Shivakumar — Son of Shiva, the young lord
Basavaraj — King among devotees of Basavanna
Guru — Teacher, Jupiter, spiritual guide
Nagaraj — King of serpents, Shiva
Vittal — Lord Vishnu worshipped at Pandharpur

Where this comes from

Manjunatha 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.