Pawan

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Pawan is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 23rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: patiner, manipuler.

rarermore common
  • 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 ●

across 4 countries

#398 ●

of 16M given names

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
300 ●

2.4M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 90K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

PawanLatin · Hindi●2.4M records
ปวีณThai · Thai●2.2K records
প্রবীনBengali · Bangla●179 records
පවනSinhala · Sinhala●0 records

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Praveen in US United States, BR Brazil, GB United Kingdom and 17 more, Pravin in ZA South Africa, VN Vietnam, ปวีณ in TH Thailand and Prabin in NP Nepal.

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●

patiner, manipuler

Sources 1

  • Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Pawan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#236,085,2102.2M rec.—1.4KPawan276
TH Thailand#95517,62711K rec.—#351,758ปวีณ90
GB United Kingdom—11,2077.2K rec.—listedPraveen110
MY Malaysia#7496,7113.3K rec.—526Praveen53
AU Australia—6,6297.4K rec.—1Praveen114
AE United Arab Emirates#733,8272.9K rec.——Praveen83
US United States—3,70886K rec.1 in 90K3.7KPraveen300
CA Canada—3,3293.5K rec.—1Praveen92
SA Saudi Arabia#6022,057444 rec.——Pawan25
SG Singapore#3061,8772.2K rec.——Praveen66
ID Indonesia—1,7641.8K rec.——Praveen36
FR France—1,236881 rec.—119Praveen108

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi2.4M83%
  • 350K12%
  • English26K1%
  • Thai21K1%
  • Bangla20K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi2,374,43983%
350,40412%
English26,2081%
Thai21,3321%
Bangla20,1611%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Pawan is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name34K records spelled Pawan21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Päwâñ, Pãwãn, Pãwäñ, Pãwãñ, Päwâň

  • Croatian given name2.4K records spelled Pawan41 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Poland, United Kingdom

    Languages: Croatian, Czech, Russian

    Also written Pavan, Паван, Påwäň, Pãvâń, Pävăñ

  • Korean given name123 records spelled Pawan2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, South Korea, United States

    Also written 파완

  • a separate given name117 records spelled Pawan6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States

    Also written Pãwâñ, Pãwáñ, Påwäń, Pãwàñ, Páwáñ

  • Romanian given name116 records spelled Pawan3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Páwàń, Păwăn

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Pawan is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In ang, inflection of pāwa:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Breton, patiner, manipuler

    as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)

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●

010K20K30K40K19001920194019601980200032K · 1993

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Pawan in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2017
Yearrecords
189930
19001
19014
19122
19142
19151
19167
19178
191817
191920
192098
192128
192233
1923142
192450
192537
19267
192714
192818
192929
193018
193115
193235
193313
193438
193536
193638
193771
193857
193979
194071
194178
1942122
1943116
1944178
1945138
1946195
1947280
1948226
1949300
1950416
1951450
1952625
1953458
1954856
1955836
19561,059
19571,232
19581,297
19591,770
19601,832
19612,036
19622,945
19632,623
19643,642
19653,571
19664,250
19675,060
19685,060
19695,779
19706,741
19716,951
19729,090
19738,924
197410,245
197510,365
197612,609
197710,372
197811,100
197912,664
198011,835
198116,364
198220,481
198321,888
198423,831
198522,641
198619,678
198725,649
198825,243
198925,200
199026,364
199127,892
199230,334
199332,045
199428,761
199525,738
199615,304
199714,929
199811,309
1999745
20008
20017
20027
20032
20061
200758
20081,596
20093
2010725
201152
201287
201387
20143,746
2015801
20163
201719

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 106 years between 1899–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Pawan Kumar Bansal, b. 1948Pawan Kumar Goenka, b. 1954Pawan Sinha, b. 1968Pawan Kalyan, b. 1971Pawan Shankar, b. 1975Pawan K. Shrivastava, b. 1982Pawan Sehrawat, b. 1996

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 36 sources across 23 countries.

Official registers attesting Pawan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199332K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199230K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199429K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199128K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199026K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)199526K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198726K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198825K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198925K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198424K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198523K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)198322K—

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 285 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Pawan?
We estimate roughly 3.9 thousand people bear Pawan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
In which country does Pawan have the most bearers?
Pawan is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled pawan.
How common is Pawan compared with other names?
In India, Pawan is the 23rd most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Pawan a male or female name?
Pawan 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 Pawan mean?
Recorded meaning: patiner, manipuler
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Pawan” — the 23rd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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