Gourishankar

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries

Gourishankar is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.

  • LVLatvia1 in 1.9M(measured from records)
  • INIndia≈1 in 26Kas Gaurishankar
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 1Mfew recordsas Gowrishankar

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gourishankar itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (inferred from the name graph)

≈57,000 named Gaurishankar, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
89 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 1.9M (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
GaurishankarLatin(measured from records)
গৌরীশঙ্করBengali(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Gaurishankar in IN India, KW Kuwait, ID Indonesia and 2 more and Gowrishankar in US United States, LK Sri Lanka.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Gourishankar counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Gourishankar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India≈57,000 est.≈1 in 26K12Gaurishankar89
ID Indonesia≈110 est.≈1 in 2.6M—Gaurishankar7
US United States≈56 est.≈1 in 6.1MlistedGowrishankar64
LK Sri Lanka≈53 est.≈1 in 412K—Gowrishankar8
MY Malaysia≈34 est.≈1 in 1M—Gourishankar6
AE United Arab Emirates≈27 est.≈1 in 411K—Gaurishankar3
QA Qatar≈7 est.≈1 in 403K—Gaurishankar2
KW Kuwait≈6 est.≈1 in 761K—Gaurishankar4
LV Latvia11 in 1.9M1——

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Evidence

(measured from records)

4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Is Gourishankar a male or female name?
Gourishankar is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Gourishankar have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 57 thousand people named Gaurishankar in India, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Gourishankar most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gourishankar is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 1.9 million people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Gourishankar?
In Latvia, the national register counted 1 people named Gourishankar, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Gourishankar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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