Murukan

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Murugan, young warrior god, South Kerala form”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Benjamin — From Biblical Hebrew, literally 'son of the right hand' (or 'son of the south')
• Dakshinamurthi — Lord Shiva facing south, teacher
• Karthikeyan — Son of Krittika stars, Murugan
• Murugan — Lord Murugan, youth
• Saravanan — Born in the reed forest, Murugan
• Senthil — Lord Murugan

More boys' names of Dravidian origin

• Kannan — Krishna, the dark one, beloved cowherd
• Biju — Victorious, modern Kerala name
• Babu — Beloved child, dear little one
• Lal — Beloved, red, darling
• Unni — Baby, young child, dear little one
• Jiju — Modern Kerala pet name, beloved brother-in-law figure

Where this comes from

Murukan 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.