MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Perumal mean?
Perumal joins Tamil perum, “great”, to al, “person”, and functions as an honorific name. In Tamil devotion it is especially a title of Vishnu, whose temples commonly use Perumal in their names.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पेरुमाल
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Perumal in Indian usage
3,342 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (93.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 221 records (6.6%).
- Recorded as male: 3,121 records (93.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 399 |
| 1950s | 643 |
| 1960s | 714 |
| 1970s | 713 |
| 1980s | 515 |
| 1990s | 201 |
| Other decades | 157 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Puducherry | 1,529 |
| Kerala | 879 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 462 |
| Other states | 472 |
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
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Wiktionary: பெருமாள் ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.