Ravi

Classical Sanskrit origin

रवीष्ट (ravīṣṭa): ‘loved by the sun’, an orange.

Source: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), a public-domain scholarly reference — not every popular name today traces to a classical dictionary entry, so this section only appears where a verified match exists.

Traditional associations

In Hindu tradition, names are sometimes chosen by the baby's rashi (moon sign) or nakshatra (birth star). This is cultural tradition, not a rule. Traditional rashi (by first letter, as commonly listed in this corpus) — not a personalized astrological reading, and not the same as the traditional first-syllable (akshara) method some families use.

• Rashi: Simha
• Nakshatra: Uttara Phalguni
• More names starting with R

Names with a similar meaning

Names that share a word with “‘loved by the sun’, an orange”. Meanings are the common reading rather than a ruling — the same name is often glossed differently by different sources.

• Pritam — Beloved, the one most loved
• Pritish — Loved by all, dear to everyone
• Suryakanta — ‘sun-loved’, the sun-stone, sun-crystal (a kind of crystal supposed to possess fabulous properties as giving out heat when exposed to the sun; there is a corresponding moonstone See -; also -)
• Sajan — Beloved, one who is loved deeply
• Alveena — Loved one, dear one
• Suryakant — ‘sun-loved’, the sun-stone, sun-crystal (a kind of crystal supposed to possess fabulous properties as giving out heat when exposed to the sun; there is a corresponding moonstone See -; also -)

More boys' names of Sanskrit-Kannada / Sanskrit-Telugu origin

• Prabhakar — ‘light-maker’, the sun (du. sun and moon)
• Devendra — King of gods, Indra
• Lakshmipathi — Husband of Lakshmi, Vishnu
• Nagendra — Meanings families give: King of serpents, Shiva; King of serpents, Vishnu

Other names under Simha rashi

• Lavanya — beauty, loveliness
• Krishna — (with or without ) the dark half of the lunar month from full to new moon
• Surya — the wife of the god
• Lakshay — Target, aim, goal
• Harshil — Joyful, happy
• Misha — Sweet like nectar, joyful

Traditional association, recorded because families use it when choosing — see all Simha names.

Where this comes from

Ravi's etymology is verified against Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899). Its meaning comes from our compiled name corpus, the least-sourced dataset on this site — we say so plainly on Sources & methodology rather than implying an authority we cannot name.