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Rajagopalan Name Meaning

Indian (Kerala Tamil Nadu): from a personal name derived from Sanskrit rājagopāla ‘king of cowherds’ (see Rajagopal ) + 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: Rajagopal, Raghavan, Nagarajan, Jayaraman, Ranganathan, Ramanathan

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Between 1983 and 2004, in the United States, Rajagopalan life expectancy was at its lowest point in 2003, and highest in 1991. The average life expectancy for Rajagopalan in 1983 was 75, and 69 in 2004.

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