Gowrishankar
Gowrishankar means Meanings families give: Lord Shiva with Parvati; Shiva as consort of Gauri.
Meaning as commonly given; not from a dictionary.
| Gender | boy |
| Origin | Kannada / Tamil |
| Language | Kannada / Tamil |
| Starts with | G |
Names with a similar meaning
Names that share a word with “Meanings families give: Lord Shiva with Parvati; Shiva as consort of Gauri”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.
- Gaurish — Lord Shiva, the consort of Gauri, the fair one
- Ishani — Meanings families give: Consort of Shiva, northeast corner; Goddess Parvati; ruling; Goddess Parvati, wife of Shiva
- Parvathy — Meanings families give: Goddess Parvati; Daughter of the mountain, Shiva consort; Goddess Parvati, daughter of Himavan
- Parvati — Meanings families give: Daughter of the mountain, Shiva consort; Daughter of mountain, goddess Shakti
- Rukmini — Meanings families give: Wife of Krishna, golden adorned; Goddess Rukmini, wife of Krishna; Adorned with gold, wife of Krishna; Goddess Rukmini, consort of Lord Krishna; Wife of Lord Krishna, adorned with gold
- Maheshwari — Meanings families give: Goddess Parvati, great goddess; Great goddess, consort of Mahesh
More boys' names of Kannada / Tamil origin
- Murugan — Meanings families give: Lord Murugan, youth; Tamil god of war, the beautiful one; Young, divine war god of Tamils
- Venkataraman — Meanings families give: Lord Vishnu of Venkata hill; Rama of Venkata, Vishnu
Where this comes from
Gowrishankar has no entry in the classical Sanskrit dictionary we check against, which is common for modern and non-Sanskrit names. Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.