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Pravin

Boys' name

Skilled

Pravin has been given to 63 babies in the U.S. since 1981. 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 1996, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Pravin, 2016

1 in 612,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pravin: meaning, origin, and history

Skilled

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pravin means

Pravin means “skilled”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Pravin is used in Marathi, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 63 boys were recorded with the name Pravin between 1981 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1996; its best national rank was #7,012 in 1981.

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.

How common is Pravin?

Pravin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 612,000
6 of 3,669,531 births
Among boys only
1 in 316,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
423,922 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pravin 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 2016 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 423,922 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pravin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pravins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pravin was born before 2001 — so the typical Pravin is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
34.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
63
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 34.9% of all recorded uses (22).

Is Pravin 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 1996 (7)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,012
1981

Spellings of Pravin

Pravin is not the most common spelling — Travis is, with 47.8% against Pravin's <0.01%.

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.

Pravin around the world

Where Pravin 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
    2000–2016
    #4,810
    in 2016
  • France
    2001–2009
    #5,141
    in 2009
  • Canada
    1993–2014
    #2,672
    in 2014

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Pravin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#7,012
1981
Peak year
1996
7 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
63
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Pravin

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

PranshPragyanPrayerPrajwalPrayanPranithSarvinAarvinPrattZayvinKeyvinPranitPranilPrayagPraisePradeepPranayPratherDhruvinPraizePrahladYavinShivinPrakash

Sibling names for Pravin

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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