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Praveen

Just 116 men in Poland carry it, and hardly any boys receive it now: a name most Poles will never meet. At root it means "skilled, talented".

Praveen Pronunciation

Alive in 2025
116
National rank
#3146

What Praveen means

Where Praveen comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Praveen begins in the Sanskrit adjective praveena, meaning skilled or proficient. The listed origin is plain: other. Still, the trail runs back to that old word for a person who has mastered the work in front of them. Someone called praveena knew a craft well.

Across South Asia the name became common for men, carried by athletes and musicians alike. It has stayed close to its meaning. The word marks competence, being good at something real. In English the short gloss reads skilled, talented, and the name has held to it.

On a Polish class register the entry would look foreign in shape, clear in sense once read. The Polish reading is umiejętny, kompetentny, a person who can do the thing and do it right. Praveen means skilled.

How many people are named Praveen

1 in 184019 men in Poland is named Praveen. 116 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3146 among male names.

People with the name Praveen 2019 → 2025
116 +78 since 2019
2020 42 +4
2021 42 0
2022 50 +8
2023 79 +29
2024 102 +23
2025 116 +14

Praveen as a middle name

Praveen is a first name for 116 men in Poland and a middle name for another 11, a 91/9 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2993rd, between Prasanna (11) and Quý (11).

As a first name
116
As a middle name
11
first name 91% middle name 9%

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