Pravin
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sanskrit: ‘skilful’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pravin 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.
- 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 Pravin 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 37K (inferred from the name graph)
≈37,000 named Pawan, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
South Africa, 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 3 more, Pawan in IN India 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)
Sanskrit: ‘skilful’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pravin 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 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Pravin | 30 |
| BH Bahrain | #38 | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Praveen | 15 |
| KW Kuwait | #140 | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Praveen | 27 |
| 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. 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)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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(measured from records)
Attested in 35 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 121K | #107 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 356 | #11,839 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pravin mean, and where does it come from?
- Sanskrit: ‘skilful’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- 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.
- In which country does Pravin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 37 thousand people named Pawan in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Pravin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,809 people named Praveen in 2020, about 1 in 87 thousand residents.
- How common is Pravin compared with other names?
- In India, Pravin is the 19th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pravinThe 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, “Pravin” — the 19th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.