Gursanjh
- Gender
- Unisex
- Say it
- gur-SANJ
- Origin
- Punjabi
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,163 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #6,324 for girls
Gursanjh is a name of Punjabi origin, meaning “bond with the Guru”. In 2025 it ranked 1,163rd for girls in the UK (30 babies) and 6,324th for girls in the US (18 babies).
What does Gursanjh mean?
Punjabi: Sikh name: gur + sanjh
“bond with the Guru”
Combines gur, the Guru, with sanjh, a Punjabi word for a bond or shared connection.
Is Gursanjh a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Gursanjh has been given to both girls and boys. In 2025, it was given to 30 girls and 10 boys in the UK and 18 girls in the US.
How popular is Gursanjh in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,163rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 30 about 1 in 9,300 girls
- Five-year trend
- Newly popular new in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 30 girls in the UK were named Gursanjh, making it the 1,163rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 31 girls. 10 boys were also named Gursanjh in 2025 (2,342nd for boys).
Half of all the girls named Gursanjh in the UK since 1996 were born between 2023 and 2025, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 37 girls in the UK were given Gursanjh or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #904, up from #1,163 for this spelling alone.
- Gursanjh 30
- Gursaanjh 7
In 2025, 75% of the babies named Gursanjh in the UK were girls.
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,110th in England and Wales.
Gursanjh in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #1,163 |
| 2024 | 31 | #1,143 |
| 2023 | 24 | #1,399 |
| 2022 | 4 | #4,870 |
| 2021 | 4 | #4,864 |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
How popular is Gursanjh in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,324th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 18 about 1 in 89,000 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, 18 girls in the US were named Gursanjh, making it the 6,324th most popular name for girls. It first appears in the records in 2017.
It has been given to more girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had the most girls named Gursanjh of any year since it first appeared, in 2017.
Half of all the girls named Gursanjh in the US since 1880 were born between 2023 and 2025, the years shaded on the chart below.
Gursanjh in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,324 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
Names like Gursanjh
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Gurnaaz, Gurbani, Gurnoor, Aavya, Aarvi, Prisha, Avneet, Gurmehar, Anvi, Saanvi, Anvika, Khivi
Other spellings of Gursanjh
Gursaanjh
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, “Gursanjh: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/gursanjh, updated 20 October 2026.