Given name & surname
Praveen
“one who is proficient”
Praveen is used as a given name and a surname. One Hindi interpretation is “one who is proficient.”
Original Hindiप्रवीण
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hindi interpretation is “one who is proficient.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hindi.
How it developed
From Sanskrit प्रवीण (“skillful, proficient, adept”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1970. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Praveen through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 217
- 217 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1979
- 10 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 boys is 7 in 2010. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,809 as a first name in 2020; 643 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Praveen’s family of names
Praveen has a related form in Pravin. Praveen has a related form in Pravean. Praveen has a related form in Pravein.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Praveen
- Praveen Kumar SobtiIndian discus thrower, hammer thrower and actor (1947–2022)
- Praveen KumarIndian former cricket playerborn 1980
- Pravin TogadiaIndian oncologist, activistborn 1956
- Praveen JordanIndonesian badminton playerborn 1993
- Pravin ThipsayIndian chess playerborn 1959
- Praveen SattaruIndian film directorborn 1953
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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