Ravi
The boy's name Ravi has been in the national records since 1963, with 3,610 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,244th. About 3,500 Ravis are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 25.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Ravi boys named Ravi
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,610
- Estimated living today
- 3,500
- Median age today
- 25
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 1,211th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,244th
- First recorded
- 1963
- Girls / boys
- 5 / 3,605
How old the living Ravis are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,610 babies given the name since 1963, about 3,500 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 1,300 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2000 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Borrowed from Sanskrit रवि (“the sun or the sun-god.”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Ravis
- Ravi Shankar (1920–2012)Indian sitar player
- Raja Ravi Varma (1848–1906)Indian painter from Kerala
- Ravi Zacharias (1946–2020)Canadian-American Christian apologist
- Ravi Shankar Prasad (born 1954)Indian politician
- Ravi Teja (born 1962)Telugu Actor
- Ravi Shastri (born 1962)Indian cricket coach, former player and commentator
- Ravi (born 1993)South Korean rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer
- Ravi Kishan (born 1971)Indian film actor, voice actor and television personality
People named Ravi with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ravi is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ravi is most concentrated in New Jersey (5.4×), Massachusetts (3.3×), New York (3.0×), California (2.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular boys’ names the year Ravi peaked:
Ravi elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Ravi | 689 | 427th |
| France boys | Ravi | 155 | 1,658th |
| Belgium boys | Ravi | 78 | 478th |
| Switzerland boys | Ravi | 53 | 882nd |
| Ireland boys | Ravi | 13 | 509th |
| Poland boys | Ravi | 8 birth registrations | 507th |
| Scotland boys | Ravi | 3 | 315th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Ravi: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Ravi | 39 | 0.003% | 928th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Ravi | 10 | 0.002% | 527th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Ravi | 2 | 0.003% | 195th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Ravi | 2 | 0.054% | 16th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Ravi: rank by region
In 2025, Ravi was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Ravi | 317 | 18 |
In 2024, Ravi was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Ravi | 324 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Ravi appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (226th) and Province of Antwerp (290th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Ravi among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Ravi | 12 | 19 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Ravi against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.