What does the name Palaniappan mean?

Palaniappan means "Lord of Palani hill". It is a boy's name of Tamil origin.

Palaniappan

Palaniappan means Lord of Palani hill.

Meaning as commonly given; not from a dictionary.

Gender	boy
Origin	Tamil
Language	Tamil
Starts with	P

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Lord of Palani hill”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

Palanisamy — God of Palani, Murugan
Palanimurugan — Murugan of Palani hills
Venkatesh — Meanings families give: Lord of the Venkata hill; Lord of Venkata hill, Vishnu
Venkata — Name of a hill, Venkateswara
Manali — A bird; hill station of the mind
Govardhan — Meanings families give: Mountain lifted by Krishna to shelter the villagers; Lifter of Govardhan hill, protector

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

Palaniappan 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.