Family name origins & meanings
- Indian (Kerala, Tamil Nadu) : Hindu name from Sanskrit narasimha ‘man lion’ (from nara ‘man’ + simha ‘lion’, name of the fourth incarnation of Vishnu, in which he was half man and half lion) + 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.