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25 Malayalam Boy Names with Meanings

Every Malayalam boy name below comes with its meaning or origin — and 11 of the 25 names include the native spelling, drawn from Wikipedia. Jump to a letter, or play the duel game: choose between two names at a time until your personal top 10 remains.

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A B C F G J K M N O R S U V

Malayalam boy names starting with A

• AjishAjish (Ajeesh) is a common first name in Malayalam, the regional language of the state of Kerala in India. It is most commonly used by Hindus and Christians.

Malayalam boy names starting with B

• BalasubramaniamబలసBalasubramaniam or Balasubramanian (Telugu: బాలసుబ్రహ్మణ్యం; Tamil: பாலசுப்ரமணியம்; Kannada: ಬಾಲಸುಬ್ರಹ್ಮಣ್ಯಂ; Malayalam: ബാലസുബ്രഹ്മണ്യം) is a male given name in South India and Sri Lanka.
• BijuബBiju (Malayalam: ബിജു) is a male given name and surname in India, especially in Bengal, Orissa, and Kerala. It is also found in Bangladesh, where the name means "second son".

Malayalam boy names starting with C

• ChackoചChacko (Malayalam: ചാക്കോ) is a Syriac Malayalam masculine given name and surname, a form of Jacob and James. It is most commonly found among Syrian Christians in Kerala and Cochin Jews.
• ChandyChandy is the Malayalam name meaning Alexander. Notable people with the given name or surname include: Anna Chandy (1905–1996), first woman Judge of India Arjun Chandy, Indo-American singer Jacob Chandy (1910–2007), Indian neurosurgeon and teacher K.M.

Malayalam boy names starting with F

• FaizalFaizal is a masculine given name. It is also used as a surname.

Malayalam boy names starting with G

• GopinathanGopinathan is a name which was used in Southern States of India like Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh in the 1950s and 1960s among the progressive Hindu families.

Malayalam boy names starting with J

• JayachandranJayachandran is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: M.

Malayalam boy names starting with K

• KannanகணணனKannan (Tamil: கண்ணன்) (Malayalam: കണ്ണൻ) is a Tamil and Malayalam male given name. Due to a Tamil tradition of using patronymic surnames, it may also be a surname for males and females.
• KulasekharaකලසKulasekhara (Sinhala: කුලසේකර; also transliterated as Kulachekara in Tamil and early Malayalam), meaning "Head-Ornament of the Race", is a South Asian male name, used both as a given name and a last name.
• KurianܩܘܪܝܩܘܣKurian (also spelled Kurien) is a Saint Thomas Christians and Syrian Christian name of Syriac Aramaic origin or Greek origin, presumed to have originated from the name Quriaqos (ܩܘܪܝܩܘܣ) or the Greek Kyrios or kurios (Ancient Greek: κύριος) meaning Lord,…
• KuruvillaKuruvila or Kuruvilla is a given masculine name (and also as a surname/lastname where the complete name format is 'X' son of 'Y', and a traditional surname is not used), among the Syriac Christian community of Kerala.

Malayalam boy names starting with M

• MukundanMukundan is a Malayali name that may refer to: Mukundan C. Menon (1948–2005), Indian human rights activist M.

Malayalam boy names starting with N

• NagarajनNagaraj, Nagraj or Nagaraja or Nagarajan is a male Indian given name and Indian surname. It originates in the Sanskrit: नागराज nagaraja 'king of the nāgas'.

Malayalam boy names starting with O

• OommenഉമമനOommen (Malayalam: ഉമ്മന്‍) is a name used by Syrian Christians (Nasranis) of India, especially in Kerala, the Southwestern state of India. The name Oommen is a local variant of the Syriac name 'Thoma' (Syriac: ܬܐܽܡܳܐ).

Malayalam boy names starting with R

• RaghavanRaghavan is a South Indian name. It derives from the Sanskrit raghava, meaning "derived from Raghu" or "descendant of Raghu" (an epithet of the Hindu god Rama, an incarnation of Vishnu), plus the Tamil-Malayalam third-person masculine singular suffix -n.
• RamachandranThe Tamil and Malayali name Ramachandran may refer to: A. Ramachandran (1935–2024), an Indian painter A.
• RamaiahRamaiah or Ramayya is an Indian name. Notable people with the name include: Chukka Ramaiah (born 1925), Indian educationist Relangi Venkata Ramaiah (1910–1975), Indian actor, comedian, and producer M.

Malayalam boy names starting with S

• ShajiഷShaji (Malayalam: ഷാജി | Hindi: शाजी) is a common south Indian male given name. The most probable etymology is from Old Persian Shah (شاه) "king" and the Hindi honorific suffix ji (जी).
• ShijuShiju is a unisex given name in India, especially often for men in Kerala. Notable people with the name include: Shiju A R (born 1974), Indian actor Shiju Nambyath (born 1973), script and dialogue writer in Malayalam cinema Shiju Kataria (21st century),…
• SomasundaramசSomasundaram or Somasundaran (Tamil: சோமசுந்தரம், romanized: Cōmacuntaram) is a male given name in South India and Sri Lanka. Due to the South Indian tradition of using patronymic surnames it may also be a surname for males and females.

Malayalam boy names starting with U

• UnniUnni is used as a first name or surname in Kerala, India. In the Malayalam language, it is also used as an adjective meaning "child." Historically, it was used as a title denoting a "royal child" or "sacred child" by uppermost members of the traditional Hindu…
• UnnikrishnanUnnikrishnan is a Hindu name commonly used in the Indian state of Kerala. Unnikrishnan refers to the infant form of the Hindu deity Krishna.

Malayalam boy names starting with V

• VargheseVarghese is a Syriac–Malayalam form of the Assyrian Syriac/Aramaic Christian name Giwargis, the Syriac equivalent of George. The related Malayalam variants include Varughese, Verghese, Geevarghese, Varughis, and Varkey.
• ViswanathanவViswanathan (Tamil: விசுவநாதன், romanized: Vicuvanātaṉ; Malayalam: വിശ്വനാഥൻ, romanized: Viśvanāthan) is a male given name in South India and Sri Lanka.

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