Nagappa
Nagappa means Father of serpents, Naga chief.
Meaning as commonly given; not from a dictionary.
| Gender | boy |
| Origin | Kannada |
| Language | Kannada |
| Starts with | N |
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “Father of serpents, Naga chief”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Vasuki — Meanings families give: King of serpents, Naga king; Sacred serpent of Shiva, king of snakes
- Ulupi — Naga (serpent) princess, daughter of King Kauravya
- Phanindra — Lord of serpents, Shesha naga
- Raj — (nom. ) a king, sovereign, chief (in later language only ifc.)
- Param — chief, highest, primary, most prominent or conspicuous
- Pravar — Chief, excellent, supreme
More boys' names of Kannada origin
- Puneeth — Purified, holy, sacred
- Manjunatha — Lord of the misty peaks, Shiva
- Manjunath — Lord of the misty peaks, Shiva
- Shivakumar — Son of Shiva, the young lord
- Basavaraj — King among devotees of Basavanna
- Guru — Teacher, Jupiter, spiritual guide
Where this comes from
Nagappa 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.