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Arumugam

Six-faced one; Murugan

Arumugam means “Six-faced one; Murugan”.

Origin language
Tamil
First letter
A
Historical records
3,684

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Arumugam mean?

Tamil aru means six and mugam means face. Arumugam names Murugan through his six-faced form, also known in Sanskrit as Shanmukha. Murugan is also called Karttikeya and Skanda in Sanskrit religious literature.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

आरुमुगम

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Arumugam in Indian usage

3,684 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.

By birth decade

Arumugam: records by birth decade1940s: 2871940s1950s: 6471950s1960s: 9561960s1970s: 1,0471970s1980s: 5161980s1990s: 1051990sOther decades: 126Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1940s287
1950s647
1960s956
1970s1,047
1980s516
1990s105
Other decades126

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Puducherry3,024
Andhra Pradesh364
Maharashtra130
Other states166
How to read these numbers

Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.

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Sources

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Wiktionary: ஆறுமுகம் ↗ (opens in a new tab)
  3. Wiktionary: षण्मुख (ṣaṇmukha) ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    meaning

  4. Wiktionary: Arumugam ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    origin

  5. Monier-Williams, kumāra, p. 292,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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