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Nagarajan Family History

Nagarajan Surname Meaning

Indian (Kerala Tamil Nadu): from a personal name derived from Sanskrit nāgarāja ‘serpent king’ (from nāga ‘serpent cobra’ + rāja ‘king’) an epithet of the serpent king Shesha.

+ 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


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