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Pavan

#10,413 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Pavana

Pavan has been given to 564 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #10,413 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Pavan, 2025

1 in 474,000

Pavan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pavan: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Pavana

Sanskrit

What Pavan means

Pavan is a form of Pavana.

Origin, language, and formation

Pavan is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Pavana.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 564 boys were recorded with the name Pavan between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 32 in 2002; its best national rank was #2,922 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,544 in 2020 to #10,413 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,344 in 2015 to #10,413 in 2025.

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 Pavan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 244,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,413
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pavan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pavan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pavans were born

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

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
35.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
564
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 35.8% of all recorded uses (202).

Is Pavan 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
+236
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,131
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,069
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.88×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
21.9%
Peak was 2002 (32)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,922
2002

Spellings of Pavan

Pavan is not the most common spelling — Alan is, with 28.3% against Pavan's 0.04%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Pavan is used

Across 1910–2025, Pavan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 683,861 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Pavan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pavan around the world

Where Pavan 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
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2008
    #2,338
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Pavan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,413
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,131
Best rank ever
#2,922
2002
Peak year
2002
32 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
564
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Pavan

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

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Sibling names for Pavan

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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