What does the name Shanmugam mean?

Shanmugam means "Six-faced one, Murugan". It is a boy's name of Tamil origin.

Shanmugam

Shanmugam means Six-faced one, Murugan.

Gender	boy
Origin	Tamil
Language	Tamil
Starts with	S

Names with a similar meaning

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

Ramachandran — Moon-faced Rama
Chandramukhi — Moon-faced, beautiful as the moon
Indumukhi — Moon-faced, beautiful like moon
Karthikeyan — Son of Krittika stars, Murugan
Murugan — Lord Murugan, youth
Saravanan — Born in the reed forest, 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

Shanmugam 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.