Naveen
Pronunciation | /nəˈviːn/ na-VEEN |
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Gender | Unisex(Either male or female, Non - binary) |
Language(s) | Sanskrit |
Origin | |
Word/name | Indian |
Meaning | "new", "fresh", "young", "bright", "creative" |
Other names | |
Alternative spelling | Navin, Nawin, Nabin, Naween, Navheen, Nhaveen, Naven, Nabeen, Naveen |
Naveen or Navin (Sanskrit: नवीन, IAST: navīna; meaning "new", "fresh", "young", "bright", "creative")[1] is an Indian given name and surname.
Notable people with that name include:
- Ampasayya Naveen, Indian novelist
- Naveen Andrews, British actor
- Naveen Asrani, Indian cricketer
- Navin Chawla, Indian bureaucrat
- Naveen Jain, American chief executive
- Naveen Jindal, Indian politician
- Naveen Kumar (disambiguation), several people
- Naveen Naqvi, Pakistani journalist
- Naveen Patnaik, Indian politician
- Naveen Perwani, Pakistani snooker player
- Naveen Polishetty, Indian actor
- Naveen Soni, Indian journalist
- Naveen Waqar, Pakistani VJ and model.
- Yalavarthi Naveen Babu (1964–2000), or simply Naveen, a Naxalite leader in India
- Naveen-ul-Haq, Afghan cricketer
Fictional characters[]
- Prince Naveen, a character in the 2009 Disney animated film The Princess and the Frog
See also[]
- Naveen Shahdara, residential area in North East Delhi
References[]
- ^ Monier-Williams, Monier (1899). A Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo-European Languages. Oxford: Clarendon Press. OCLC 685239912.
Categories:
- Given names
- Surnames
- Indian masculine given names