What does the name Gobind mean?

Gobind means "Lord of the cow herds, preserver". It is a unisex name of Sikh origin.

Gobind

Gobind means Lord of the cow herds, preserver.

Gender	unisex
Origin	Sikh
Language	Punjabi
Starts with	G

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “Lord of the cow herds, preserver”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

Vishnu — Lord Vishnu, preserver
Narayan — Refuge of man, a name of Lord Vishnu, the preserver
Vishnudev — Devoted to Vishnu, the divine servant of the preserver

More unisex names of Sikh origin

Gurpreet — Love of the Guru
Hardeep — Lamp of God, God's light
Harsimran — Remembering God, in meditation of the Lord
Harjot — God's light, divine flame
Gurmeet — Friend of the Guru, Guru's companion
Satnam — True name, name of the true Lord

Where this comes from

Gobind 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.