Pavan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Alternative form of Paduan (“stately Spanish dance”)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pˈævæn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pavan 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 Pavan 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 3.3M (inferred from the name graph)
≈37,000 named Pawan, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Praveen in US United States, BR Brazil, AE United Arab Emirates and 4 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)
Alternative form of Paduan (“stately Spanish dance”).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pavan 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 |
| BR Brazil | — | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | 14K | Praveen | 10 |
| 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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)
Pavan 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 dialetal reduzida de Pavano
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Padovani
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
In French, a French surname from Occitan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, definite singular of pava
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vec, Paduan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Pietro Pavanb. 1903ITItalian cardinal (1903–1994)
- Agostino Pavanb. 1921ITItalian politician (1921-2012)
- Marisa Pavanb. 1932ITItalian actress (1932-2023)
- Élisabeth Crouzet-Pavanb. 1953FRFrench historian and teacher
- Luana Pavanb. 1963ITItalian association football player
- Simone Pavanb. 1974ITItalian footballer
- Francesca Pavanb. 1979ITItalian water polo player
- Sarah Pavanb. 1986CACanadian volleyball and beach volleyball player
- Andrea Pavanb. 1989ITItalian professional golfer
- Nicola Pavanb. 1993ITassociation football player
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 51 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 50K | #108 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2K | #7,289 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 63 | #7,289 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 7 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2014 | 2 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 2015 | 1 | — |
| IN India | Indian names with gender (Kaggle) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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
- Is Pavan a male or female name?
- Pavan 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 Pavan mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of Paduan (“stately Spanish dance”). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pavan?
- A machine transcription gives /pˈævæn/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Pavan 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 Pavan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,809 people named Praveen in 2020, about 1 in 87 thousand residents.
- How common is Pavan compared with other names?
- In India, Pavan is the 19th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pavanThe 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, “Pavan” — the 19th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.