Ravi

Where Ravi comes from

Borrowed from Sanskrit रवि (ravi, “the sun or the sun-god.”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Ravi
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1963
    First appearance
    #3,318 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1986
    Peak, #1,041
    80 babies named Ravi — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2010
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,958.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name used in India.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Ravi hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.