Palaniappan

Names with a similar meaning

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

• Palanisamy — God of Palani, Murugan
• Palanimurugan — Murugan of Palani hills
• 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

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

Palaniappan 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.