MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Subrahmanyan mean?
Subrahmanyan is a southern form of Subrahmanya, a name of Kartikeya. The deity is Shiva and Parvati's son and is especially prominent as Murugan in Tamil devotional literature. Sanskrit lexicography additionally records Subrahmanya as a name of Shiva.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Malayalam
സുബ്രഹ്മണ്യൻ
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
सुब्रह्मण्यन
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Subrahmanyan in Indian usage
4,862 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 494 |
| 1950s | 990 |
| 1960s | 1,458 |
| 1970s | 1,074 |
| 1980s | 685 |
| Other decades | 161 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Other states | 4,862 |
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
- Monier-Williams, subrahmaṇya, p. 1229,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: சுப்பிரமணியன் ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.