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Gurvinder

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Gurvinder has been given to 17 babies in the U.S. since 1996. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1999, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Gurvinder, 2000

1 in 756,000

Gurvinder over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gurvinder: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gurvinder means

Gurvinder is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Gurvinder is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 17 boys were recorded with the name Gurvinder between 1996 and 2000. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1999; its best national rank was #8,156 in 1999.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Gurvinder?

Gurvinder had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2000, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2000
1 in 756,000
5 of 3,778,496 births
Among boys only
1 in 393,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2000
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
523,812 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gurvinder sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2000 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 523,812 children born in 2000 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gurvinder. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gurvinders were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gurvinder was born before 1999 — so the typical Gurvinder is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
70.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
17
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 70.6% of all recorded uses (12).

Is Gurvinder rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1999 (7)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,156
1999

Gurvinder around the world

Where Gurvinder ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2010
    #3,865
    in 2010
  • Canada
    1991–1999
    #2,002
    in 1999

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Gurvinder by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#8,156
1999
Peak year
1999
7 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2000
All-time count
17
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gurvinder

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Gurvinder

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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