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Pallavi

Girls' name

Feminine form of Pallav

Pallavi has been given to 358 babies in the U.S. since 1978. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1998, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Pallavi, 2017

1 in 715,000

Pallavi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pallavi: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Pallav

Sanskrit

What Pallavi means

Pallavi is a feminine form of Pallav.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Pallavi is used in Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Telugu and Tamil.

Origin, language, and formation

Pallavi is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Pallav.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 358 girls were recorded with the name Pallavi between 1978 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 24 in 1998; its best national rank was #4,593 in 1998.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Pallavi?

Pallavi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017
1 in 715,000
5 of 3,577,106 births
Among girls only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2017
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
495,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pallavi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pallavi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pallavis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pallavi was born before 2000 — so the typical Pallavi is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
44.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
358
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Choose a decade

2000s — 44.1% of all recorded uses (158).

Is Pallavi rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1998 (24)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,593
1998

Where Pallavi is used

Across 1910–2025, Pallavi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 485,236 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Pallavi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pallavi around the world

Where Pallavi ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2002–2002
    #730
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Pallavi by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,593
1998
Peak year
1998
24 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
358
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Pallavi

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Pallavi

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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