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Viswanathan Name Meaning

Indian (Kerala Tamil Nadu): from a personal name derived from Sanskrit višvanātha ‘lord of the universe’ (from višva ‘universe’ + nātha ‘lord’) 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: Ranganathan, Swaminathan, Ramanathan, Padmanabhan, Sankaran, Jonathan

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