Kumaran
Origin
Tamil
Syllables
3
Peak era
Rare
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
“Tamil form of Kumara, the youth, an epithet of Murugan; honoring the freedom fighter Tiruppur Kumaran, who died holding the nationalist flag in 1932”
Popularity, 1890–2024
1890srare in US records2020s
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Kumaran has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
The Kumaran deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Kumaran truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Kumaran fits with your family’s names and surname.
Keep exploring
Does Kumaran fit YOUR family?
nametree reads your family’s names and finds the ones that belong. Free, private, no ads.
Add Kumaran to your family’s tree →