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Ravinder

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Variant of Ravindra

Ravinder has been given to 98 babies in the U.S. since 1961. 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 1987, with 10 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% boys, 5% girls all-time.

Babies named Ravinder, 2002

1 in 747,000

Ravinder over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Ravinder over time

In 2002, Ravinder went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

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A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Ravinder: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Ravindra

Punjabi

What Ravinder means

Ravinder is a variant of Ravindra.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ravinder is used in Indian (Sikh).

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ravinder → Ravindra. The family’s meaning is “lord of the sun”, recorded in the naming reference for Ravindra.

Origin, language, and formation

Ravinder is used in English. Its origins include Punjabi.

Ravinder comes through Punjabi ਰਵਿੰਦਰ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ravindra and ਰਵ.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 93 boys were recorded with the name Ravinder between 1961 and 2002. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1987; its best national rank was #4,300 in 1969.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Ravinder between 1984 and 1984. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1984; its best national rank was #11,686 in 1984.

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 Ravinder?

Ravinder had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2002, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2002
1 in 747,000
5 of 3,737,275 births
Among boys only
1 in 388,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2002
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
518,097 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ravinder 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 2002 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 518,097 children born in 2002 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ravinder. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ravinders were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ravinder was born before 1984 — so the typical Ravinder is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
33.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
93
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (31).

Is Ravinder 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1987 (10)
Years since peak
38
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,300
1969

Spellings of Ravinder

Ravinder is not the most common spelling — Rainer is, with 44.6% against Ravinder's 3.3%.

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 Ravinder is used

Across 1910–2025, Ravinder was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,050,436 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New 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. Ravinder has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ravinder around the world

Where Ravinder 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
    1996–2012
    #4,805
    in 2012
  • Canada
    1991–2001
    #2,057
    in 2001
  • South Australia
    1980–1980
    #422
    in 1980

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

Ravinder 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
—
Best rank ever
#4,300
1969
Peak year
1987
10 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
2002
All-time count
93
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,686
1984
Peak year
1984
5 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
1984
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ravinder

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

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Sibling names for Ravinder

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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