Given name

Gurjit

Gurjit is a masculine given name from Sanskrit.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Gurjit comes from Sanskrit.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1995. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Gurjit through the years

Babies since 1880
10
10 boys · 0 girls
Most popular year
1995
5 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
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Gurjit in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1995–2025, per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2003. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 828 as a first name in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

People named Gurjit

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

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