Last name origin & meaning: Indian (Kerala, Tamil Nadu): Hindu name from Sanskrit
bālasubrahmạnya ‘child Subrahmanya’ (from bāla
‘child’ + subrahmạnya ‘dear to Brahmans’, an epithet of the
god Kartikeya, son of the god Shiva) + 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.
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