What does the name Palanisamy mean?

Palanisamy means "God of Palani, Murugan". It is a boy's name of Tamil origin.

Palanisamy

Palanisamy means God of Palani, Murugan.

Gender	boy
Origin	Tamil
Language	Tamil
Starts with	P

Names with a similar meaning

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

Palanimurugan — Murugan of Palani hills
Palaniappan — Lord of Palani hill
Karthikeyan — Son of Krittika stars, Murugan
Murugan — Lord Murugan, youth
Saravanan — Born in the reed forest, Murugan
Senthil — Lord Murugan

More boys' names of Tamil origin

Kavi — Poet
Tharun — Young, tender
Aadhi — Beginning, the first
Iniyan — Sweet person
Vetri — Victory
Ezhilan — Beautiful

Where this comes from

Palanisamy 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.