Entry № 8040 · Sanskrit origin

Pavani Pavani — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ PAH-vah-nee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Sanskrit
Meaning
"Holy / pure (Ganga epithet)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient

A name that means "holy / pure (ganga epithet)".

Pavani is from the Sanskrit Pāvanī.

Holy / pure (Ganga epithet) — a Sanskrit name.

The name in its native script.

पावनी
Transliteration
Pāvanī
Pronunciation
/ ˈpɑː.və.ni /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Pavani stands.

Pavani does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Pavanis before her.

Real people

In fiction
Ganga purifier / Hanuman
Sanskrit holy purifier + Ganga epithet purifier of sins + Ganga Stotram by Adi Shankaracharya + Pavana Hanuman son of Wind-God Vayu + Hindu Ganga-veneration
Hindu deity

Names connected to Pavani.

The number behind Pavani.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Pavani reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.