Pawan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pæwɑn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pawan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. In India it is the 19th most common given name. Recorded meaning: patiner, manipuler.
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 1.9Kas Praveen(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 3.9Kas Praveen
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 14Kas Praveen
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Pawan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- #374 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 334 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 816 (inferred from the name graph)
≈37,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Nepal, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Praveen in US United States, AE United Arab Emirates, KW Kuwait and 4 more and Prabin in NP Nepal.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
patiner, manipuler
Sources 1
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pawan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 816 | 1 | Prabin | 73 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Praveen | 40 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #183 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Praveen | 42 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #41 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Praveen | 87 |
| US United States | — | 3,809as Praveen | 1 in 87K | 3.7K | Praveen | 334 |
| BH Bahrain | #38 | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Praveen | 15 |
| KW Kuwait | #140 | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Praveen | 27 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 99 | 1 in 175K | 99 | Praveen | 30 |
| IN India | #19 | — | — | 1.4K | Pawan | 299 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pawan Kumar Bansalb. 1948INIndian National Congress politician
- Pawan Kumar Goenkab. 1954INIndian businessman
- Pawan Sinhab. 1968USIndian scientist; winner of the 2012 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
- Pawan Kalyanb. 1971INIndian actor & deputy chief minister of Andhra Pradesh
- Pawan Shankarb. 1975INIndian actor
- Pawan K. Shrivastavab. 1982INIndian activist
- Pawan Sehrawatb. 1996INIndian kabaddi player
- Pawan KripalaniINIndian film director
- Pawan BhartiaINEmeritus Scientist, NASA
- Pawan TiwariINIndian filmmaker
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 37 sources across 23 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pawan mean, and where does it come from?
- patiner, manipuler Recorded by Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
- How do you pronounce Pawan?
- A machine transcription gives /pæwɑn/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- 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.
- In which country does Pawan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 37 thousand people named Pawan in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled prabin.
- How common is the name Pawan?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 99 people named Pawan, about 1 in 175 thousand residents.
- How common is Pawan compared with other names?
- In India, Pawan is the 19th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Pawan?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pawanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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 19th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.