What does the name Waheguru mean?

Waheguru means "Wonderful lord, praise to the Lord". It is a unisex name of Sikh origin.

Waheguru

Waheguru means Wonderful lord, praise to the Lord.

Gender	unisex
Origin	Sikh
Language	Punjabi
Starts with	W

Names with a similar meaning

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

Ajaib — Wonderful, amazing and miraculous
Wahegurjit — Victory of the wonderful God, Waheguru's triumph
Bachittar — Wonderful, extraordinary and unique
Wahegurjot — Light of the wonderful God, Waheguru's flame
Wahegurupreet — Love of the wonderful God, devotion to Waheguru
Wahegurpreet — Love of the wonderful God, devotion to Waheguru

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

Waheguru 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.