MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Pavani mean?
Pavani uses the feminine of pavana in its purifying sense. Pavani is also a name of Ganga, the river personified as a goddess.
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
पावनी
Conventional spelling
Devanagari
पवनी
Letter-by-letter: pavanī
10,770 records for this spelling. Historical records ↗
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Pavani in Indian usage
11,623 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 |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 434 |
| 1950s | 1,055 |
| 1960s | 2,341 |
| 1970s | 2,298 |
| 1980s | 3,036 |
| 1990s | 2,320 |
| Other decades | 139 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Rajasthan | 9,353 |
| Bihar | 1,440 |
| Jharkhand | 456 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 109 |
| Other states | 265 |
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, pāvanī, p. 623,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, pāvana, p. 623,2 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.