MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Praveen mean?
Skill or proficiency is the sense of the Sanskrit adjective pravīṇa. Praveena is its corresponding feminine name form.
Pronunciation
IAST: pravīṇa
Meaning themes
skill
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
प्रवीण
Letter-by-letter: pravīṇa
Conventional spelling
Other spellings
- Pravin
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Praveen in Indian usage
432,277 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (84.1%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 68,639 records (15.9%).
- Recorded as male: 363,638 records (84.1%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1930s | 283 |
| 1940s | 1,157 |
| 1950s | 7,128 |
| 1960s | 28,948 |
| 1970s | 79,111 |
| 1980s | 167,895 |
| 1990s | 147,509 |
| Other decades | 246 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Uttar Pradesh | 112,893 |
| Haryana | 66,751 |
| Bihar | 52,877 |
| Rajasthan | 43,315 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 32,955 |
| Punjab | 23,879 |
| Kerala | 22,144 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 17,908 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 14,163 |
| Jharkhand | 14,014 |
| Uttarakhand | 13,370 |
| Delhi | 12,233 |
| Maharashtra | 1,872 |
| Goa | 1,578 |
| Chandigarh | 1,035 |
| Puducherry | 537 |
| Karnataka | 193 |
| Sikkim | 149 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 113 |
| Other states | 298 |
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, pravīṇa, p. 693,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Wiktionary: प्रवीण ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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- Behind the Name: Praveen ↗ (opens in a new tab)
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