Sikh names

Most popular baby sikh names with meanings. Pick a perfect name from the vast collection of names. Find the origin, lucky number, religion, and other key aspects of name. The best part is that names are also categorized into different religions. Here you find Top names meaning.

Sikh Names with Meaning

Being a parent is the most precious gift from god to a couple. When a couple is blessed with a baby they celebrate their parenthood as an honor by inaugurating a ceremony for their newborn and their responsibilities started increasing as a parent as their baby grows, the first responsibility as a parent is to inherit their culture and religious norms to the baby and like any other culture Sikh culture plays a great role in the society. Every culture has its own ways of celebrating born of its baby likewise Sikh community has its own values and ceremonies and the biggest ceremony after a baby is born is the naming ceremony. The Sikh baby naming ceremony is celebrated in Gurudwara this gathering includes close family members of new parents.

This ceremony usually takes place when the baby and mother become physically fit as there’s no time and day fixed for this ceremony they mainly focus on the baby and mother’s health first. Sikh baby names are mostly derived from Guru Granth Sahib. In this ceremony, the father of the baby or any other elder person asks Guru Granth to choose the first letter of their baby’s name, and then the family of the baby names their baby including this letter, this might happen immediately or takes some days to name the baby and then they announce their baby name to the gathering, this gathering includes close family members of newly parents.

The family reads a random verse from Guru Granth usually none as “Hukam” and from the first letter of the verse baby’s name is derived, the suffix ‘Kaur’ completes the baby girl’s name, and the suffix ‘Singh’ completes the baby boy name. After naming the baby they sing their songs of bliss and joy.