Kurian
Meaning
of the Lord; one of the clearest windows into Kerala's Syriac liturgical heritage, from Greek Kyriakos filtered through Syriac Kuriakose into a form Americans read and say without coaching; a grandfather-generation cornerstone of Syrian Christian families
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Kurian has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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