MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Pavana mean?
Pavana is a feminine name based on pavan, wind. Sanskrit calls the wind a purifier, and this older connection explains the movement from cleansing to the air's name.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पवना
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Pavana in Indian usage
6,055 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
The available aggregate sex counts are withheld or incomplete.
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1960s | 1,546 |
| 1970s | 2,395 |
| 1980s | 1,266 |
| 1990s | 417 |
| Other decades | 431 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Himachal Pradesh | 5,054 |
| Punjab | 265 |
| Uttarakhand | 258 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 112 |
| Other states | 366 |
How to read these numbers
Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.
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Sources
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Monier-Williams, pavana, p. 610,3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.