What does the name Gowrishankar mean?

Gowrishankar means "Lord Shiva with Parvati". It is a boy's name of Tamil origin.

Gowrishankar

Gowrishankar means Lord Shiva with Parvati.

Gender	boy
Origin	Tamil
Language	Tamil
Starts with	G

Names with a similar meaning

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

Vamika — Goddess Parvati, another name for Durga
Arya — Noble, respected, Goddess Parvati
Ishanvi — Goddess Parvati, gift of Shiva
Shivani — Goddess Parvati, wife of Shiva
Esha — Desire, wish, Goddess Parvati
Shanvi — Goddess Parvati, beautiful

More boys' names of Tamil origin

Karthikeyan — Son of Krittika stars, Murugan
Murugan — Lord Murugan, youth
Kavi — Poet
Tharun — Young, tender
Aadhi — Beginning, the first
Iniyan — Sweet person

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.