Neelan

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “The blue one, Lord Shiva”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Neel — Meanings families give: Blue, sapphire; Blue, sapphire colored like the sky and ocean; Blue, sapphire; Lord Vishnu; Blue, like the sky
• Neil — Blue, champion
• Nilamadhab — Blue Lord, original name of Lord Jagannath
• Nila — Blue, moon, river of moonlight
• Meenal — Meanings families give: A precious stone, turquoise, gem; Precious blue stone, gem
• Nilanjana — Meanings families give: Blue-eyed, dark eyes like a doe; Blue-eyed; one with blue-tinted eyes

More boys' names of Tamil origin

• Kavi — Poet
• Tharun — Young, tender
• Aadhi — Beginning, the first
• Iniyan — Sweet person
• Saravanan — Born in the reed forest, Murugan
• Vetri — Victory

Where this comes from

Neelan 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.