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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Indian (Kerala) : name in the Christian community, a derivative of the Greek personal name Kyriakos ‘of the Lord’ (equivalent to Dominic), with the Tamil-Malayalam third personal singular suffix -n. It is found only as a given name in Kerala, but in the U.S. has come to be used as a family name among families from Kerala.

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