Ravidass as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Ravidass

What is the meaning of the name Ravidass ?

The baby name Ravidass is a Male name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced /ˈrɑːviˌdɑːs/ — RAH-vee-dahs.

Ravidass is Indian in Origin.

Ravidass is an Indo-Aryan male given name with roots in Sanskrit: ravi “sun” (a name of the Vedic Sun-god, Surya) + dasa/das “servant, devotee.” It thus means “servant of the Sun” or, more broadly in bhakti usage, “devotee of God.” The compound entered New Indo-Aryan languages (Hindi, Punjabi, and others), where phonetic shifts produced several spellings.

Its modern prominence stems from the 15th-16th century Bhakti saint Guru Ravidas of Varanasi, revered by Hindus, Sikhs, and the Ravidassia community, with hymns preserved in the Sikh scripture, the Guru Granth Sahib. The name functions as a first name and sometimes a surname or honorific across North India and the diaspora. Variants include Ravidas (common), Ravidās (scholarly), Raidas (vernacular), Rohidas (Marathi), and Ravi Das (spaced); the doubled-s Ravidass is frequent in diaspora and community organizations.

⚙ Ravidass is exceptionally rare. Our whole dataset turns up only 5 recorded uses, across 4 countries.