Gurjit
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A male given name from Sanskrit used by Sikhs
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ɡəjɪt/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gurjit is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 71K(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 72K
- USUnited States1 in 402K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 158 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈930 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bahrain, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A male given name from Sanskrit used by Sikhs.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gurjit 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Gurjit | 105 |
| US United States | — | 828 | 1 in 402K | 483 | Gurjit | 158 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 72K | 6 | Gurjit | 97 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Gurjit | 21 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 156K | 1 | Gurjit | 11 |
| BH Bahrain | #944 | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Gurjit | 2 |
| OM Oman | — | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Gurjit | 1 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Gurjit | 5 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the ca-statcan-baby-names register; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Tiger Ali Singhb. 1971CAnot in their usual nameCanadian professional wrestler
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 15 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gurjit mean, and where does it come from?
- A male given name from Sanskrit used by Sikhs. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Gurjit?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡəjɪt/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Gurjit a male or female name?
- Gurjit is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Gurjit have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 929 people named Gurjit in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gurjit.
- How common is the name Gurjit?
- In the United States, the national register counted 828 people named Gurjit in 2020, about 1 in 402 thousand residents.
- How common is Gurjit compared with other names?
- In Bahrain, Gurjit is the 944th most common given name of 6,583 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gurjit?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gurjitThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Gurjit” — the 944th most common given name in Bahrain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.