Shanmugam
Shanmugam means Six-faced one, Murugan.
Meaning as commonly given; not from a dictionary.
| Gender | boy |
| Origin | Tamil |
| Language | Tamil |
| Starts with | S |
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “Six-faced one, Murugan”. 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
- Ramachandran — Meanings families give: Moon-faced Rama; Rama the moon-like, one as brilliant as moon
- Chandramukhi — Moon-faced, beautiful as the moon
- Indumukhi — Moon-faced, beautiful like moon
- Karthikeyan — Meanings families give: Son of Krittika stars, Murugan; Son of the Pleiades, Lord Murugan
More boys' names of Tamil origin
Where this comes from
Shanmugam 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.