Pawan
Just 85 people in Poland carry it, almost all of them men, and no boys have been given it in recent years. It comes from Greek, where it means wind or air.
Pawan Pronunciation
Pawan is pronounced PAH-vahn (/ˈpavan/).
What Pawan means
Where Pawan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Pawan is grounded in a Greek origin, and its short meaning is plain: wind, air. In Polish that comes through as wiatr and powietrze, the moving air and the air we breathe. The Greek word for air, aer, sits close to the same idea, the invisible thing that fills a room and stirs the trees outside a window.
A name that means wind is a name for something you cannot hold.
The grounding lists no diminutives, no variants, no cross-gender forms for Pawan. That absence is itself a fact. Some names arrive in Polish trailing a dozen shortenings. This one stands as it is, four letters, one word for a thing that never stays still. On a class register it reads clean, with nothing to trim.
Air and wind are old subjects. The Greeks measured them, named their directions, and built a science of breath around them. To carry Pawan is to carry that short meaning without decoration: wiatr, powietrze, the air itself.
How many people are named Pawan
1 in 257183 men in Poland is named Pawan. 85 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3839 among male names.