Pravin
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pravin 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: Sanskrit: ‘skilful’.
- 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, 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●
Sanskrit: ‘skilful’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested in 1 language 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●
- Hindi479K73%
- English51K8%
- 29K4%
- Bangla12K2%
- Telugu12K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 478,728 | 73% |
| English | 51,279 | 8% |
| 28,584 | 4% | |
| Bangla | 11,881 | 2% |
| Telugu | 11,771 | 2% |
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●
Pravin is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, männl. Vom. indischer Herkunft (sanskrit, pravïna »geschickt«).
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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 |
|---|---|
| 1918 | 1 |
| 1920 | 1 |
| 1923 | 3 |
| 1931 | 1 |
| 1932 | 1 |
| 1934 | 1 |
| 1935 | 2 |
| 1936 | 1 |
| 1937 | 1 |
| 1938 | 2 |
| 1939 | 1 |
| 1940 | 1 |
| 1941 | 1 |
| 1943 | 2 |
| 1944 | 1 |
| 1945 | 2 |
| 1946 | 3 |
| 1947 | 3 |
| 1948 | 3 |
| 1949 | 2 |
| 1950 | 2 |
| 1951 | 6 |
| 1952 | 3 |
| 1953 | 3 |
| 1954 | 7 |
| 1955 | 5 |
| 1956 | 8 |
| 1957 | 6 |
| 1958 | 9 |
| 1959 | 14 |
| 1960 | 16 |
| 1961 | 9 |
| 1962 | 23 |
| 1963 | 21 |
| 1964 | 34 |
| 1965 | 29 |
| 1966 | 35 |
| 1967 | 45 |
| 1968 | 65 |
| 1969 | 64 |
| 1970 | 89 |
| 1971 | 96 |
| 1972 | 105 |
| 1973 | 122 |
| 1974 | 128 |
| 1975 | 126 |
| 1976 | 144 |
| 1977 | 141 |
| 1978 | 188 |
| 1979 | 204 |
| 1980 | 159 |
| 1981 | 284 |
| 1982 | 308 |
| 1983 | 338 |
| 1984 | 359 |
| 1985 | 425 |
| 1986 | 342 |
| 1987 | 448 |
| 1988 | 419 |
| 1989 | 429 |
| 1990 | 494 |
| 1991 | 441 |
| 1992 | 419 |
| 1993 | 419 |
| 1994 | 380 |
| 1995 | 359 |
| 1996 | 213 |
| 1997 | 177 |
| 1998 | 109 |
| 1999 | 5 |
| 2000 | 1 |
| 2001 | 1 |
| 2008 | 29 |
| 2010 | 13 |
| 2011 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 |
| 2013 | 7 |
| 2014 | 81 |
| 2015 | 11 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 79 years between 1918–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Pravin Joshib. 1934INIndian stage actor, director and playwright
- Pravin Gordhanb. 1949ZASouth African politician (1949–2024)
- Pravin Zantyeb. 1966INIndian Bharatiya Janata Party politician
- Pravin Mishrab. 1975INIndian artist, filmmaker and journalist
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 34 sources across 20 countries.
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 · 220 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Pravin?
- We estimate roughly 3.9 thousand people bear Pravin (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Pravin have the most bearers?
- Pravin is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled pawan.
- How common is Pravin compared with other names?
- In India, Pravin is the 23rd most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
- Is Pravin a male or female name?
- Pravin 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 Pravin mean?
- Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘skilful’.
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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, “Pravin” — the 23rd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.