What does the name Suryanarayana mean?

Suryanarayana means "Sun Vishnu combined". It is a boy's name of Telugu origin.

What is the classical Sanskrit origin of Suryanarayana?

सूर्यनारायण (sūryanārāyaṇa): the Sun personified, per the Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899).

Suryanarayana

Suryanarayana means Sun Vishnu combined.

Gender	boy
Origin	Telugu
Language	Telugu
Starts with	S

Classical Sanskrit origin

सूर्यनारायण (sūryanārāyaṇa): the Sun personified.

Source: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), a public-domain scholarly reference — not every popular name today traces to a classical dictionary entry, so this section only appears where a verified match exists.

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Sun Vishnu combined”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

Lovepreet — Love and devotion combined, affectionate beloved
Harikrishna — Vishnu and Krishna combined
Sai Krishna — Sai and Krishna combined blessing
Lavpreet — Love and devotion combined, affectionate heart
Harihar — Combined form of Vishnu and Shiva
Hariharan — Shiva and Vishnu combined

More boys' names of Telugu origin

Venkatesh — Lord of the Venkata hill
Srinivas — Abode of Lakshmi, Venkateswara
Venkata — Name of a hill, Venkateswara
Balaji — Lord Venkateswara, the young lord
Teja — Brilliance, radiance, strength
Vamsi — Flute, descendant

Where this comes from

Suryanarayana's etymology is verified against Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899). 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.