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Pavithran name meaning

“pure”

Letters
9
Syllables
3
First letter
P
Origin
Sanskrit · Tamil
Category
Indian Names
Gender
♂ Boy
Peak 2000s: 7.5%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Indian table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s7.5%
2010s–

Indian Names: PMeaning puritySanskrit origin

Pavithran is a male name related to Sanskrit pavitra, meaning 'pure'.

What does Pavithran mean?

Pure

In Malay: suci

#Purity

Sources (1)

About the name Pavithran

Pavithran is a male name related to pavitra, a Sanskrit word meaning pure or holy, from the root pū 'to purify'. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 2000s with 302 baby boys.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginSanskrit, Tamil
SyllablesPa-vi-thran
First letterIndian Names starting with P

Pavithran in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
Boy: 302 · 7.5%
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Pavithran as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Indian table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: पवित्र · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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