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Ravi name meaning

“sun”

Letters
4
Syllables
2
First letter
R
Origin
Sanskrit
Category
Indian Names
Gender
♂ Boy
Peak 1960s: 7.1%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Indian table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s–
1960s7.1%
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Indian Names: RMeaning lightSanskrit origin

Ravi is a boy's name from Sanskrit meaning 'sun'.

What does Ravi mean?

Sun

In Malay: matahari

#Light#The sun

Sources (2)

About the name Ravi

Ravi is the Sanskrit word for the sun, and also the name of a Hindu sun god sometimes equated with Surya. The spelling Ravee is used for the Malayalam form. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1960s with 589 baby boys.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginSanskrit
SyllablesRa-vi
First letterIndian Names starting with R
Devanagari scriptरवि
Malayalam scriptരവി

Ravi in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
Boy: 589 · 7.1%
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Ravi 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: रवि · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Behind the Name: Ravi · behindthename.com · meaning

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