Pavan
The name carries the sense of wind or breath, from outside the Polish naming tradition. Fewer than 50 men in Poland answer to it, and it goes to no newborns now, so most Poles will never meet one.
Pavan Pronunciation
What Pavan means
Where Pavan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Pavan means wind and breath. The word sits close to Sanskrit pavana, which names the moving air and, in older texts, a purifier of it. Its origin is filed plainly as other, standing apart from the Slavic and Latin roots that fill most Polish name lists. That distance is part of the appeal.
On a Polish class register, Pavan lands between a Paweł and a Patryk, a short entry a teacher reads once and keeps. The spelling is stable, four letters, no diminutive attached to it in the record as given. A name with the meaning of air does not need decoration.
The link to breath is the steady thread here. Pavana in Sanskrit runs through words for both the wind outside and the air a person draws in, and Pavan holds that double sense in five plain letters. So the meaning stays literal rather than symbolic. Call the name and you have named the wind and the breath.
How many people are named Pavan
1 in 508243 men in Poland is named Pavan. 42 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #5959 among male names.
Pavan as a middle name
Pavan is a first name for 42 men in Poland and a middle name for another 4, a 91/9 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 5685th, between Palmiro (4) and Peder (4).
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#5683 Oǧuzhan4
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#5684 Palmiro4
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#5685 Pavan4
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#5686 Peder4
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#5687 Pelagiusz4