Ravi

given name · Hindi · Latin script

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

Ravi is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 43rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A male given name used in India.

rarermore common
  • 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 ●

across 7 countries

#518 ●

of 16M given names

8 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
369 ●

5.0M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.2K ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

RaviLatin · Hindi●3.3M records
রাওBengali · Bangla●750 records
ରାଓOdia · Odia●136 records
เราThai · Thai●126 records
РабиCyrillic · Bulgarian●27 records
라비Hangul · Korean●7 records
రవTelugu · Telugu●1 records
ΡαβιGreek · Greek●0 records

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Rao in US United States, AU Australia, PK Pakistan and 6 more, Rabi in NG Nigeria, PH Philippines, MX Mexico and 1 more, ราวี in TH Thailand and Robi in BD Bangladesh.

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●

A male given name used in India.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Ravi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#436,621,7664.5M rec.—145KRavi318
BR Brazil—63,267△335 rec.1 in 3.3K63KRavi49
GB United Kingdom—24,22320K rec.—listedRavi148
MY Malaysia#40319,09517K rec.—589Ravi76
AU Australia—15,95219K rec.—2Rao154
US United States—9,433304K rec.1 in 35K15KRao369
CA Canada—9,08210K rec.—9Ravi124
PK Pakistan—6,2684.8K rec.—2Rao78
AR Argentina—5,8244.4K rec.—686Rao55
ID Indonesia—5,1063.6K rec.—listedRavi95
SG Singapore#2334,9236.6K rec.——Ravi93
TH Thailand—4,5073.3K rec.—#541,450ราวี74

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Languages●

  • Hindi3.3M62%
  • English515K10%
  • Portuguese343K6%
  • 291K5%
  • Assamese272K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi3,315,89062%
English515,05010%
Portuguese343,3676%
290,6645%
Assamese271,8185%

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◐

Ravi is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name410K records spelled Ravi6 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Ravì, Rāvī, Ravī, Rāvi, Raví

  • Portuguese given name363K records spelled Ravi33 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, India, United States, Spain

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Raví, Ravì, Rãvì, RÃvi, Râví

  • Arabic given name28K records spelled Ravi25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Israel, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia

    Languages: Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic

    Also written רבי, ראבי, Rabi, ראווי, Rabih

  • a separate name9.3K records spelled Ravi2 spellings in the group

    Also written રવિ

  • French given name8.3K records spelled Ravi6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, India, United States, Spain

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Râvī, Rãvī, Râvì, Râvî

  • Tamil given name5.0K records spelled Ravi12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Malaysia

    Languages: Tamil, Kannada

    Also written ரவி, Reve, രവി, Iravi, இரவி

  • Russian given name3.9K records spelled Ravi16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Poland, Russia, United States

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Ukrainian

    Also written Рави, Раві, Rävi, Räví, Rävî

  • Turkish given name2.7K records spelled Ravi9 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani

    Also written Râvi, Řãvï, Řåvĭ, Rávì, Råvî

54 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●

Ravi 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 plural de ravo, de Rava; também pode vir de ravus ou da localidade de Ravi

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • name of many men (P); Aghora (N); Ganega (N);

    as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

  • Sanskrit: ‘sun’, name of the sun god.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • name for Surya (sun god)

    as a nameA Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India

  • In Italian, Variante di Rapa

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

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●

020K40K60K19001920194019601980200041K · 1993

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Ravi in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2017
Yearrecords
189927
19002
19012
19021
19091
19121
19141
19151
191612
19179
191817
191924
192067
192142
192236
1923175
192458
192558
192615
192720
192823
192931
193020
193136
193255
193337
193462
193567
193660
193790
1938105
1939109
1940123
1941141
1942185
1943151
1944239
1945204
1946266
1947291
1948321
1949323
1950388
1951400
1952548
1953483
1954682
1955662
1956755
1957861
1958884
19591,192
19601,103
19611,196
19621,530
19631,441
19641,794
19651,804
19662,012
19672,242
19682,673
19692,541
19702,966
19713,052
19723,707
19733,948
19744,533
19754,696
19765,752
19775,296
19785,988
19796,784
19806,204
19818,955
198212,224
198313,750
198416,508
198517,021
198616,302
198723,185
198824,870
198927,564
199030,192
199133,592
199237,861
199341,361
199437,066
199533,819
199619,990
199718,286
199812,844
19991,227
200023
200126
20028
20041
20062
200722
2008939
2010474
201137
201246
201380
20143,509
2015898
20162
201719

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 107 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●

18001850190019502000Ravi Varma, b. 1848Ravi Shankar, b. 1920Ravi Zacharias, b. 1946Ravi Chopra, b. 1946Ravi K. Chandran, b. 1965Ravi Coltrane, b. 1965Ravi Kishan, b. 1971Ravi Varman, b. 1973Ravi Patel, b. 1978

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 88 sources across 40 countries.

Official registers attesting Ravi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202263K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—62K#489
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)202053K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20209.4K#2,537
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—7.9K#1,135
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.5K#11,982
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—1.8K#6,316
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—1.5K#1,623
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.4K#19,498
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—796#489
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000623#34,399
MY Malaysiadata.gov.my — Baby Name Popularity Dashboard (HTML-embedded JSON)—589—

Reference works 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 · 499 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ravi?
We estimate roughly 74 thousand people bear Ravi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Ravi have the most bearers?
Ravi is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled ravi.
How common is Ravi compared with other names?
In India, Ravi is the 43rd most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Ravi a male or female name?
Ravi 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 Ravi mean?
Recorded meaning: A male given name used in India.
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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, “Ravi” — the 43rd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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