Rav
surname · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Rav is a surname, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 43rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: grosse chaîne d’attelage.
- INIndia1 in 420◐
- SGSingapore1 in 2.1K
- MYMalaysia1 in 3.2K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈74K ●
- #518 ●
- 8 ●
- Sources
- 369 ●
- 1 in 2.2K ◐
across 7 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
5.0M records
Official registry-verified
Guyana
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Ravi in IN India, BR Brazil, GB United Kingdom and 11 more, Rao in US United States, AU Australia, PK Pakistan and 6 more, Rabi in NG Nigeria, PH Philippines, MX Mexico and 1 more and ราวี 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●
grosse chaîne d’attelage
Sources 1
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #43 | 6,621,766 | 4.5M rec. | — | 145K | Ravi | 318 |
| BR Brazil | — | 63,267△ | 335 rec. | 1 in 3.3K | 63K | Ravi | 49 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 24,223 | 20K rec. | — | listed | Ravi | 148 |
| MY Malaysia | #403 | 19,095 | 17K rec. | — | 589 | Ravi | 76 |
| AU Australia | — | 15,952 | 19K rec. | — | 2 | Rao | 154 |
| US United States | — | 9,433 | 304K rec. | 1 in 35K | 15K | Rao | 369 |
| CA Canada | — | 9,082 | 10K rec. | — | 9 | Ravi | 124 |
| PK Pakistan | — | 6,268 | 4.8K rec. | — | 2 | Rao | 78 |
| AR Argentina | — | 5,824 | 4.4K rec. | — | 686 | Rao | 55 |
| ID Indonesia | — | 5,106 | 3.6K rec. | — | listed | Ravi | 95 |
| SG Singapore | #233 | 4,923 | 6.6K rec. | — | — | Ravi | 93 |
| TH Thailand | — | 4,507 | 3.3K rec. | — | #541,450 | ราวี | 74 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi88K71%
- 23K18%
- English4.1K3%
- Bangla1.8K1%
- Indonesian1.8K1%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 88,463 | 71% |
| 22,741 | 18% | |
| English | 4,107 | 3% |
| Bangla | 1,833 | 1% |
| Indonesian | 1,784 | 1% |
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●
Rav 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 Dutch, initialism of regionale ambulancevoorziening (“regional ambulance service”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, amber (fossilised resin)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, a rabbi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, amber
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, grosse chaîne d’attelage
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.
Notable people with this name●
- Rolf Horn Ravb. 1893NONorwegian painter (1893-1968)
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 13 sources across 6 countries.
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 · 26 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Rav?
- We estimate roughly 74 thousand people bear Rav (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Rav have the most bearers?
- Rav is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled ravi.
- How common is Rav compared with other names?
- In India, Rav is the 43rd most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Rav mean?
- Recorded meaning: grosse chaîne d’attelage
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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, “Rav” — the 43rd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.