Gaurav
Around 120 Polish men carry it and no women, with no newborns recorded in the years on file. The name means honor, pride, respect.
Gaurav Pronunciation
What Gaurav means
Where Gaurav comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Gaurav comes from Sanskrit. The word gaurava (गौरव) names honor, pride, and respect. It grows from guru, meaning heavy or weighty, so a person of gaurava holds real weight among others. In Hindi the word still works as an ordinary noun for glory and prestige.
The name is masculine. It spread across India through the twentieth century and stays common for boys born in recent decades. Public bearers include the fashion designer Gaurav Gupta and the television host Gaurav Kapur.
On a Polish class register the spelling looks unfamiliar, and a teacher meeting it for the first time slows at the opening vowel. In Poland the name stays rare, brought by families with Indian roots.
The Sanskrit root shares an ancestor with Latin gravis, heavy, the source of English gravity. Gaurava ties honor to that same idea of weight. The Polish gloss keeps two of its senses, duma and godność.
How many people are named Gaurav
1 in 173546 men in Poland is named Gaurav. 123 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3030 among male names.
Gaurav as a middle name
Gaurav is a first name for 123 men in Poland and a middle name for another 11, a 92/8 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2270th, between Galit (11) and Gay (11).
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#2268 Gala11
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#2269 Galit11
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#2270 Gaurav11
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#2271 Gay11
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#2272 Gaya11