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Raghavan Name Meaning

Indian (Kerala, Tamil Nadu): Hindu name from Sanskrit raghava ‘derived from Raghu’, ‘descendant of Raghu’ (an epithet of the god Rama, incarnation of Vishnu) + the Tamil-Malayalam third-person masculine singular suffix -n. This is only a given name in India, but has come to be used as a family name in the U.S.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press


Similar surnames: Sankaran, Mahajan, Canavan, Rahman, Ramadan, Ashman, Mahan, Lagana

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Raghavan Family Origin

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Raghavan Family Occupations

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Raghavan Historical Records

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