Gobind

given name · Latin script

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

Gobind is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. In India it is the 87th most common given name. Recorded meaning: $ Variant of covinp, the name of one of the ten Sikh gurus, therefore especially popular among Sikhs.

rarermore common
  • KWKuwait≈1 in 7.7Kas Govind(inferred from the name graph)
  • BDBangladesh≈1 in 11Kas Gobinda
  • USUnited States1 in 469Kas Govind

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 Gobind 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.

Nepal (inferred from the name graph)

≈27,000 named Govinda, est.

#800 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
231 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Nepal, est., as Govinda

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GovindLatin(measured from records)
গোবিন্দBengali(measured from records)
โกวินThai(measured from records)
గోవిందTelugu(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Govind in IN India, US United States, KW Kuwait and 2 more, Govinda in ID Indonesia, NP Nepal, QA Qatar and 1 more and Gobinda in BD Bangladesh.

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(measured from records)

$ Variant of covinp, the name of one of the ten Sikh gurus, therefore especially popular among Sikhs.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gobind 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 Gobind is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NP Nepal—≈27,000 est.≈1 in 1.1K3Govinda63
BD Bangladesh#616≈15,000 est.≈1 in 11K—Gobinda41
ID Indonesia—≈2,500 est.≈1 in 106K—Govinda52
AE United Arab Emirates#374≈1,800 est.≈1 in 5.5K—Govind49
PK Pakistan—≈1,600 est.≈1 in 151K—Govind22
US United States—710as Govind1 in 469K1.9KGovind227
QA Qatar#264≈460 est.≈1 in 5.3K—Govinda11
KW Kuwait#489≈390 est.≈1 in 7.7K—Govind7
GY Guyana#421126as Govinda1 in 6K126Govinda4
IN India#87——2.2KGovind231

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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gobind is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, pers. name (H. G. Khorana)

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

  • Gobind Singhb. 1882INIndian military officer (1882–1942); recipient of the Victoria Cross

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 25 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Gobind
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1974368—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1967340—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1970313—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1992305—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1973293—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1993292—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1976287—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1975287—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1969282—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1965271—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1971270—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1972266—

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Gobind mean, and where does it come from?
$ Variant of covinp, the name of one of the ten Sikh gurus, therefore especially popular among Sikhs. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
Is Gobind a male or female name?
Gobind 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 Gobind have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 27 thousand people named Govinda in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Gobind?
In the United States, the national register counted 710 people named Govind in 2020, about 1 in 469 thousand residents.
How common is Gobind compared with other names?
In India, Gobind is the 87th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.

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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, “Gobind” — the 87th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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