What does the name Satnam mean?

Satnam means "True name, name of the true Lord". It is a unisex name of Sikh origin.

Satnam

Satnam means True name, name of the true Lord.

Gender	unisex
Origin	Sikh
Language	Punjabi
Starts with	S

Names with a similar meaning

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

Satveer — True hero, warrior of truth
Satvir — True warrior, soldier of truth
Satgur — True Guru, the genuine teacher
Swaroop — Beautiful form, own form, true nature
Satheesh — Lord of hundreds, true lord, Shiva

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
Jaspreet — Love of glory, one who loves praise of God

Where this comes from

Satnam 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.