MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Subramanian mean?
Subramanian is a southern personal-name form of Subrahmanya. The name identifies Kartikeya, also called Skanda and Murugan, the son of Shiva and Parvati. Murugan is especially prominent in Tamil devotional literature and temple worship.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
सुब्रमणियन
Conventional spelling
Malayalam
സുബ്രഹ്മണ്യൻ
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Subramanian in Indian usage
12,480 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 |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 404 |
| 1940s | 1,688 |
| 1950s | 3,339 |
| 1960s | 3,664 |
| 1970s | 2,586 |
| 1980s | 619 |
| Other decades | 180 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 10,899 |
| Puducherry | 1,438 |
| Other states | 143 |
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)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.