Pavan
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pavan is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 23rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Alternative form of Paduan (“stately Spanish dance”).
- INIndia1 in 532◐
- AEUnited Arab Emirates1 in 1.9K
- SGSingapore1 in 5.7K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.9K ●
- #398 ●
- 4 ●
- Sources
- 300 ●
- 1 in 90K ◐
across 4 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
2.4M records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
4 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Praveen in US United States, BR Brazil, GB United Kingdom and 17 more, Pawan in IN India, SA Saudi Arabia, ES Spain and 2 more, Pravin in ZA South Africa, VN Vietnam and ปวีณ in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Alternative form of Paduan (“stately Spanish dance”).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #23 | 6,085,210 | 2.2M rec. | — | 1.4K | Pawan | 276 |
| TH Thailand | #955 | 17,627 | 11K rec. | — | #351,758 | ปวีณ | 90 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 11,207 | 7.2K rec. | — | listed | Praveen | 110 |
| MY Malaysia | #749 | 6,711 | 3.3K rec. | — | 526 | Praveen | 53 |
| AU Australia | — | 6,629 | 7.4K rec. | — | 1 | Praveen | 114 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #73 | 3,827 | 2.9K rec. | — | — | Praveen | 83 |
| US United States | — | 3,708 | 86K rec. | 1 in 90K | 3.7K | Praveen | 300 |
| CA Canada | — | 3,329 | 3.5K rec. | — | 1 | Praveen | 92 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #602 | 2,057 | 444 rec. | — | — | Pawan | 25 |
| SG Singapore | #306 | 1,877 | 2.2K rec. | — | — | Praveen | 66 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 1,764 | 1.8K rec. | — | — | Praveen | 36 |
| FR France | — | 1,236 | 881 rec. | — | 119 | Praveen | 108 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi730K67%
- English81K7%
- 52K5%
- Telugu50K5%
- Assamese50K5%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 729,714 | 67% |
| English | 81,095 | 7% |
| 52,313 | 5% | |
| Telugu | 49,806 | 5% |
| Assamese | 49,798 | 5% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Pavan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, forma dialetal reduzida de Pavano
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Padovani
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In French, a French surname from Occitan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, definite singular of pava
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vec, Paduan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1970 | 6 |
| 1976 | 6 |
| 1978 | 8 |
| 1979 | 10 |
| 1980 | 6 |
| 1981 | 6 |
| 1982 | 10 |
| 1983 | 5 |
| 1985 | 14 |
| 1986 | 10 |
| 1987 | 12 |
| 1988 | 10 |
| 1989 | 11 |
| 1990 | 14 |
| 1991 | 13 |
| 1992 | 14 |
| 1993 | 17 |
| 1994 | 16 |
| 1995 | 9 |
| 1996 | 19 |
| 1997 | 14 |
| 1998 | 16 |
| 1999 | 26 |
| 2000 | 14 |
| 2001 | 22 |
| 2002 | 32 |
| 2003 | 22 |
| 2004 | 25 |
| 2005 | 15 |
| 2006 | 27 |
| 2007 | 20 |
| 2008 | 12 |
| 2009 | 13 |
| 2010 | 7 |
| 2011 | 7 |
| 2012 | 16 |
| 2013 | 7 |
| 2014 | 6 |
| 2015 | 8 |
| 2016 | 6 |
| 2018 | 9 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2020 | 5 |
| 2024 | 7 |
| 2025 | 7 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 45 years between 1970–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Pietro Pavanb. 1903ITItalian cardinal (1903–1994)
- Agostino Pavanb. 1921ITItalian politician (1921-2012)
- Marisa Pavanb. 1932ITItalian actress (1932-2023)
- Élisabeth Crouzet-Pavanb. 1953FRFrench historian and teacher
- Luana Pavanb. 1963ITItalian association football player
- Simone Pavanb. 1974ITItalian footballer
- Francesca Pavanb. 1979ITItalian water polo player
- Sarah Pavanb. 1986CACanadian volleyball and beach volleyball player
- Andrea Pavanb. 1989ITItalian professional golfer
- Nicola Pavanb. 1993ITassociation football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 49 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 50K | #108 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 18K | #673 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 14K | #1,059 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2K | #7,289 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 984 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 463 | #49,150 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 346 | #58,604 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 226 | #78,549 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 141 | #8,351 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 119 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 115 | #25,907 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 98 | #28,011 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 212 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Pavan?
- We estimate roughly 3.9 thousand people bear Pavan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Pavan have the most bearers?
- Pavan is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled pawan.
- How common is Pavan compared with other names?
- In India, Pavan is the 23rd most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
- Is Pavan a male or female name?
- Pavan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Pavan mean?
- Recorded meaning: Alternative form of Paduan (“stately Spanish dance”).
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pavan” — the 23rd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.