Gurmehar
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- gur-MEH-har
- Origin
- Punjabi
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,868 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #8,360 for girls
Gurmehar is a girls' name of Punjabi origin, meaning “grace of the Guru”. In 2025 it ranked 1,868th for girls in the UK (16 babies) and 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
What does Gurmehar mean?
Punjabi: Sikh name: gur + mehar
“grace of the Guru”
Combines gur, the Guru, with mehar, grace or kindness.
Is Gurmehar a girl's or a boy's name?
Gurmehar is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 16 girls in the UK and 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Gurmehar in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,868th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 16 about 1 in 17,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 158% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 16 girls in the UK were named Gurmehar, making it the 1,868th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,566th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 21 girls.
Half of all the girls named Gurmehar in the UK since 1996 were born between 2021 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2023, 71% of the babies named Gurmehar in the UK were girls.
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,809th in England and Wales.
Gurmehar in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #1,868 |
| 2024 | 21 | #1,538 |
| 2023 | 12 | #2,329 |
| 2022 | 13 | #2,157 |
| 2021 | 16 | #1,882 |
| 2020 | 10 | #2,566 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,914 |
| 2017 | 6 | #3,774 |
How popular is Gurmehar in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,360th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12 about 1 in 130,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Gurmehar, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 16 girls. It first appears in the records in 2018.
Half of all the girls named Gurmehar in the US since 1880 were born between 2020 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Gurmehar in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 16 | #6,928 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,592 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
Names like Gurmehar
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Gurnaaz, Gurbani, Gursanjh, Gursifat, Gurnoor, Anvika, Prisha, Avneet, Khivi, Aavya, Aarvi, Japneet
More Punjabi names
Asees, Gurbaaz, Nirvair, Gurfateh, Jind, Baani, Akaal, Gurnawab, Jujhar, Ajooni, Mannat, Ekam, Gurniwaz, Avleen, Anhad, Harleen
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Gurmehar: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/gurmehar, updated 20 October 2026.