Arvind

Aravind (from Sanskrit: अरविन्द aravinda) is a common Indian masculine name meaning lotus. The name is of Hindu origin.^[1] Its variants include Arvind, Aravinda, Aravindan, and Aurobindo (Bengali: অরবিন্দ).

Aravind

Gender	male
Language(s)	Hindi, Bengali, Odia
Origin
Word/name	Sanskrit
Meaning	Lotus
Region of origin	India

Meaning

Aravinda means lotus in the Sanskrit language. In particular, the word may refer to the lotus flower,^[2] on which the Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity – Lakshmi – sits.

Notable people

• Arvind Kejriwal, Indian politician and former bureaucrat
• Arvind Khanna, Indian politician and businessman
• Arvind Panagariya, Indian-American economist, professor of economics at Columbia University
• Arvind Pandey, Indian politician
• Arvind Mithal, known simply as Arvind, Indian-American professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT
• Arvind Parmar, British tennis player
• Arvind Sawant, Indian politician
• Arvind Sharma (born 1940), Indian academic
• Arvind Singh Mewar, Indian businessman, Maharana of Udaipur (Mewar)
• Arvind Swamy, Indian film actor
• Arvind Kumar (disambiguation), several people

Aravind

• Aravind Akash, Indian actor
• Aravind Adiga, Indian journalist and author
• Aravind L. Iyer, Indian evolutionary biologist

Aravinda

• Aravinda de Silva, Sri Lankan cricketer
• Aravinda Akroyd Ghose, better known as Sri Aurobindo, Indian philosopher
• Aravinda Chakravarti, American geneticist

Other variants

• Arabinda Muduli, Indian Odia musician, singer and lyricist
• Arabinda Dhali, politician from Odisha
• Aravindan Neelakandan, Indian writer

• Chithambaram Aravindh, Indian chess grandmaster

• Sri Aurobindo, Indian nationalist, philosopher, yogi and poet from Bengal