Given name
Pallavi
“resembling new leaves”
Pallavi is used as a given name. One Indian interpretation is “resembling new leaves.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Indian interpretation is “resembling new leaves.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Indian.
How it developed
From Sanskrit पल्लविन् (“sprout, shoot, bud”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1978. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Pallavi through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 358
- 0 boys · 358 girls
- Most popular year
- 1998
- 24 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2017. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,155 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Pallavi’s family of names
Pallavi has a related form in Palavea. Pallavi has a related form in Palavee. Pallavi has a related form in Palavey.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Palaveavariant
- Pallaveavariant
- Palaveevariant
- Pallaveevariant
- Palaveyvariant
- Pallaveyvariant
- Palavyvariant
- Pallavyvariant
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Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Pallavi
- Pallavi FauzdarIndian high-altitude motorcycle riderborn 1979
- Pallavi BatraIndian actressborn 1989
- Pallavi PatilIndian actress
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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