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Natarajan Name Meaning

Indian (Kerala Tamil Nadu): from a personal name derived from Sanskrit naṭarāja ‘king of dancers’ (from naṭa ‘dancer’ + rāja ‘king’ an epithet of the god Shiva) + the Tamil-Malayalam third-person masculine singular suffix -n. — Note: Since South Indians traditionally do not have hereditary surnames this name was in most cases registered as such only after immigration of its bearers to the US.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022


Similar surnames: Nagarajan, Narayanan, Jayaraman, Rajan, Narayan, Venkataraman

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