What does the name Gurudev mean?

Q: What does the name Gurudev mean?

Gurudev means "Meanings families give: Divine teacher, the God who is the supreme preceptor; Divine Guru, teacher who is a god". It is a unisex name of Sanskrit / Sikh origin.

Gurudev

Gurudev means Meanings families give: Divine teacher, the God who is the supreme preceptor; Divine Guru, teacher who is a god.

Meaning as commonly given; not from a dictionary.

Gender	unisex
Origin	Sanskrit / Sikh
Language	Hindi / Punjabi
Starts with	G

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Meanings families give: Divine teacher, the God who is the supreme preceptor; Divine Guru, teacher who is a god”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

Acharya — Teacher, spiritual guide and preceptor
Gurkiran — Guru's ray, beam of the teacher
Satgur — True Guru, the genuine teacher
Gurjas — Fame of the Guru, glory of the teacher
Gurdivya — Divine as the Guru, heavenly teacher
Guru — Teacher, Jupiter, spiritual guide

More unisex names of Sanskrit / Sikh origin

Gobind — Meanings families give: Protector of cows, one who finds pleasure in cows; Lord of the cow herds, preserver

Where this comes from

Gurudev 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.