Karthikeyan
Karthikeyan means Meanings families give: Son of Krittika stars, Murugan; Son of the Pleiades, Lord Murugan.
Meaning as commonly given; not from a dictionary.
| Gender | boy |
| Origin | Sanskrit-Malayalam / Tamil |
| Language | Malayalam / Tamil |
| Starts with | K |
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “Meanings families give: Son of Krittika stars, Murugan; Son of the Pleiades, Lord Murugan”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Krithika — Star in Taurus, Pleiades
- Parveen — Meanings families give: Star, cluster of stars; Star cluster, celestial and shining
- Krithik — Son of Kritika stars, another name for Kartikeya
- Nujum — Stars, Mappila Muslim poetic name
- Murugan — Meanings families give: Lord Murugan, youth; Tamil god of war, the beautiful one; Young, divine war god of Tamils
- Saravanan — Born in the reed forest, Murugan
More boys' names of Sanskrit-Malayalam / Tamil origin
- Kumaran — Meanings families give: Lord Murugan, young lord; Young one, son of Lord Shiva, Murugan
- Santhosh — Meanings families give: Contentment, happiness; Contentment, happiness, satisfaction
- Narayanan — Meanings families give: Lord Vishnu, son of Nara; Abode of man, Vishnu, the cosmic deity
- Ramachandran — Meanings families give: Moon-faced Rama; Rama the moon-like, one as brilliant as moon
- Vijayan — Meanings families give: Victorious; Victorious, the triumphant one
- Arjunan — Meanings families give: The bright and fair one; Bright, shining, the Pandava hero
Where this comes from
Karthikeyan has no entry in the classical Sanskrit dictionary we check against, which is common for modern and non-Sanskrit names. Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.