Comments on: kerala christian names, their origin and english equivalents

By: Sheeba from United States

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:54:27 +0000

Thanks so much for putting this together…very interesting!

By: renny from United States

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:37:08 +0000

i read it some website :

kurian, kuriakose :
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.

By: john jacob from United States

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:06:24 +0000

kuriakose is derived from the greek name kiriakos(eg:michaelos kiriakos is george micheal’s real name in greek).It is the name george.

By: john jacob from United States

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:56:17 +0000

I was reading and came across your question.I am from kerala and when I did a DNA match for ancestry I found that I have slavic origins.Slavs or Indo-aryans you may refer to as from persia not Europe.Maybe your family origins are after all slavic hence your father’s name

By: rocksea from Italy

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:26:04 +0000

Hi Milu, I have a faint memory of hearing the name kochunethi somewhere, but I don’t know where and when it was. No idea on its origin. Will check for it and let you know.

Roxy

By: rocksea from Italy

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:20:10 +0000

Dear Giju, Thank you very much for your appreciation. I am delighted that it has helped you in understanding the tradition much more.

By: rocksea from Italy

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:19:01 +0000

Hello Kuruvila,

Cyril is the English version of Kuruvila. The roots is from Greek Kyrillos/Kurillos. So they all are connected, and so is the bishop’s name

Roxy

By: Kuruvila Thomas from India

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:22:51 +0000

Dear Rocksea,
You have done a really great job.I was searching for long the roots of the name Kuruvila.I was amazed to see that the name has its root leading to Cyril.One question Rocksea is there any connection beetween Kyrillos and Koorilose,the common syrian bishop’s names?

By: giju from India

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:35:52 +0000

Hi,
First of all, my heartfelt regards to the site moderators.I am a syrian orthodox christian from Bangalore.I saw this site when i was particularly bored and surfing the net.
Helped me realise the immense history and traditions of my community.Helped me get the meaning of names of few of my relatives who had names, the meanings of which even they and their near ones had a very vague idea of.
Keep up the good work.May you enlighten many many more.thank you

By: Hemant Kurian from Singapore

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:32:54 +0000

Hi Rock sea,
Chanced upon this link while searching for the names for my kid. good quality content.
cheers,
Hemant.