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Find Sikh baby names by Gurmukhi first letter from the Hukamnama, with meanings and the Singh or Kaur form.
The Sikh Baby Name Finder lists Sikh given names that begin with a chosen letter — either a roman A–Z initial or one of the 35 Gurmukhi Painti Akhri letters — and shows each name in Gurmukhi script with its meaning and its Singh and Kaur forms. It is built for families who have taken a Hukamnama and been given a first letter, and now need names that actually start with it. You can also narrow by whether a name is used for boys, for girls, or for both, or search the meanings directly.
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You can pick the Gurmukhi letter directly rather than guessing at its roman transliteration, which is where most letter-based lists break down.
Each entry carries its Gurmukhi spelling and a plain-English meaning, so you are not choosing on sound alone.
Every name is shown as "<name> Singh" and "<name> Kaur", the convention instituted by Guru Gobind Singh in 1699, so you can hear the full name before you decide.
By Hukamnama: the Guru Granth Sahib is opened at random and the first letter of the first word of the shabad on the left-hand page becomes the first letter of the child's name. The family then chooses a name starting with that letter, and Singh or Kaur is added.
No. It never opens the Guru Granth Sahib or picks a letter — the Hukamnama is taken at the Gurdwara or at home, and you supply the resulting letter. Everything here is a name list filtered by the letter you give it.
Singh, meaning lion, follows a boy's given name and Kaur, meaning princess, follows a girl's. Guru Gobind Singh instituted both at Vaisakhi in 1699; because most Sikh given names are used for either gender, it is the Singh or Kaur that marks it.
The Gurmukhi alphabet used here is the Painti Akhri, 35 letters, and the list holds 95 names spread across the 23 of those letters that names in it actually begin with. If your Hukamnama letter returns nothing, the letter is one no name in this list starts with — ask at your Gurdwara for suggestions.