Gujarati Baby Names with Meanings

Gujarat's two biggest religious threads show up clearly in its names. Vaishnav families draw on Krishna's life in Dwarka and Vrindavan — Krishna, Kanha, Radha, Meera, Dwarkesh — while Gujarat's large Jain community favours names tied to the Tirthankaras and Jain virtues: Mahavir, Parshwa, and Rushabh after the first Tirthankara.

Because Gujarati families have emigrated in large numbers to the UK, US and East Africa for generations, the names that travel best tend to be short and easy to spell in Roman letters — Aarav, Dhruv, Riya, Isha. Older-generation names traditionally carried the honorific suffixes -bhai (for men) and -ben (for women) added after the given name — a convention still used as a form of address rather than part of the name on the birth certificate.

The names below are the Gujarati entries in our catalogue, most common first. If you're choosing across two countries, the finder's country filter can show you which of these are also common in the UK or the US.