Tamil Boy Names

Explore names documented in Tamil naming traditions. Compare these spellings using U.S. birth records, which do not measure popularity in other countries.

Save nameName & connection
History
1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled
Babies 2025 · rank5-year rank movementPeak year

Documented Tamil usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1967.

615#490
Up 70 rank positions in five years
2014

Documented Tamil usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1971.

44#2,868
Down 829 rank positions in five years
2007

Documented Tamil usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1959.

122#1,460
Down 270 rank positions in five years
2014

Documented Tamil usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1964.

63#2,230
Down 452 rank positions in five years
2011

Documented Tamil usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1976.

29#3,764
Down 916 rank positions in five years
2001

Documented Tamil usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1969.

43#2,936
Up 262 rank positions in five years
2000

Documented Tamil usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1966.

15#5,870
Down 1,008 rank positions in five years
1980

Documented Tamil usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1977.

20#4,948
Down 1,495 rank positions in five years
2010

Documented Tamil usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1971.

7#10,607
Down 3,145 rank positions in five years
2003

Documented Tamil usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1972.

10#8,049
Down 153 rank positions in five years
2006

Documented Tamil usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1967.

—Unranked
—
1979

Documented Tamil usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1989.

5#13,340
new
2004

Documented Tamil usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1974.

—Unranked
—
2003

Documented Tamil usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1998.

17#5,497
Up 73 rank positions in five years
2018

Tamil-rooted name; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1973.

5#12,180
new
2008

Documented Tamil usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1984.

6#10,779
Up 1,361 rank positions in five years
2004

Documented Tamil usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1994.

—Unranked
—
2003

Documented Tamil usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1988.

—Unranked
—
2005

Documented Tamil usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1979.

—Unranked
—
1987

Documented Tamil usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1989.

—Unranked
—
2000

Documented Tamil usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1998.

—Unranked
—
2002

Documented Tamil usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2005.

—Unranked
—
2005

Documented Tamil usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1999.

—Unranked
—
1999

Documented Tamil usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2016.

—Unranked
—
2016

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Sources & methodology

Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.

Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.

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