Ramachandran

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Meanings families give: Moon-faced Rama; Rama the moon-like, one as brilliant as moon”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Soumya — Meanings families give: Mild, gentle, pleasing and of pleasant nature; Gentle, soft, moon-like, calm; Gentle, calm; moon-faced; graceful; Gentle, pleasing, soft, cool
• Gajanan — Meanings families give: Lord Ganesh with elephant face; Elephant-faced, Ganesha
• Shanmugam — Six-faced one, Murugan
• Chandramukhi — Moon-faced, beautiful as the moon
• Indumukhi — Moon-faced, beautiful like moon
• Divya — Meanings families give: Divine, heavenly; Divine, heavenly, brilliant; Divine, heavenly, brilliant light; Divine, brilliant, beautiful

More boys' names of Sanskrit-Malayalam / Tamil origin

• Karthikeyan — Meanings families give: Son of Krittika stars, Murugan; Son of the Pleiades, Lord Murugan
• 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
• 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

Ramachandran 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.