Ravi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A male given name used in India
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˌɹɑˈvi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ravi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In India it is the 37th most common given name.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 7.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.8Kas Rao
- NGNigeria≈1 in 2.3Kas Rabi
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 Ravi 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- #493 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 407 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 named Rao, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Rao in BR Brazil, PK Pakistan, CN China and Rabi in NG Nigeria.
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)
A male given name used in India.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ravi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 2 | Rao | 87 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈91,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | listed | Rabi | 27 |
| BR Brazil | — | 63,267 | 1 in 3.3K | 63K | Rao | 49 |
| CN China | — | ≈54,000 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Rao | 104 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | listed | Ravi | 103 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Ravi | 59 |
| GY Guyana | #178 | 341 | 1 in 2.2K | 341 | Ravi | 6 |
| IN India | #37 | — | — | 145K | Ravi | 346 |
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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ravi Varmab. 1848INIndian painter from Kerala (1848–1906)
- Ravi Shankarb. 1920INIndian sitar player (1920–2012)
- Ravi Zachariasb. 1946USCanadian-American Christian apologist (1946–2020)
- Ravi Choprab. 1946INIndian movie producer and director (1946-2014)
- Ravi K. Chandranb. 1965INIndian cinematographer
- Ravi Coltraneb. 1965USAmerican jazz saxophonist (born 1965)
- Ravi Kishanb. 1971INIndian film actor, voice actor and television personality
- Ravi Varmanb. 1973INIndian cinematographer
- Ravi Patelb. 1978USAmerican actor
- Ravi YadavINIndian cinematographer
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 90 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 63K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 62K | #489 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 53K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 1.8K | #6,316 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 796 | #489 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 341 | #285 |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2015 | 25 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2017 | 19 | — |
Reference works 8
- 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)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 Ravi mean, and where does it come from?
- A male given name used in India. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- 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.
- In which country does Ravi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 131 thousand people named Rao in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ravi most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ravi is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 2.2 thousand people — even though Pakistan holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Ravi?
- A machine transcription gives /ˌɹɑˈvi/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- How common is the name Ravi?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 63,267 people named Ravi in 2022, about 1 in 3.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Ravi compared with other names?
- In India, Ravi is the 37th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ravi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/raviThe 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, “Ravi” — the 37th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.