# Praveen (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/praveen/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Sanskrit |
| Meaning | “skillful”, “proficient”, “adept” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 217 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 217 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 78, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit प्रवीण (pravīṇa, “skillful, proficient, adept”).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 6 | 8,604 |
| 1996 | 10 | 5,864 |
| 1997 | 6 | 8,978 |
| 1998 | 8 | 7,362 |
| 1999 | 8 | 7,685 |
| 2000 | 10 | 6,701 |
| 2001 | 6 | 10,220 |
| 2002 | 10 | 6,925 |
| 2003 | 5 | 12,273 |
| 2004 | 6 | 10,985 |
| 2005 | 7 | 9,875 |
| 2006 | 8 | 9,354 |
| 2007 | 5 | 13,894 |
| 2008 | 7 | 10,743 |
| 2010 | 7 | 10,474 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 3 | 2,863 |
| 1999 | 7 | 1,664 |
| 2000 | 4 | 2,501 |
| 2001 | 5 | 2,220 |
| 2002 | 9 | 1,519 |
| 2003 | 3 | 3,467 |
| 2004 | 8 | 1,878 |
| 2005 | 6 | 2,418 |
| 2006 | 5 | 2,870 |
| 2007 | 5 | 3,095 |
| 2008 | 3 | 4,432 |
| 2009 | 7 | 2,544 |
| 2010 | 8 | 2,400 |
| 2014 | 5 | 3,362 |

## In other languages

- Hindi: प्रवीण

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.