Apoorva (given name)

Apoorva or Apurva is the common English spelling of two related Indian given names: the feminine अपूर्वा apūrvā and the masculine अपूर्व apūrva. The masculine name is often spelled Apurv or Apoorv, as in many modern Indo-Aryan languages it is pronounced without the vowel at the end, for example in Hindi: [ɐpuːrv]. In Sanskrit apūrva and apūrvā are respectively the masculine and feminine forms of the adjective meaning 'unprecedented', 'new', 'extraordinary'.^[1]

List of people with the name

Masculine given name

• Apurva Asrani (born 1978), Indian film director
• Apurva Agnihotri (born 1972), Indian TV actor
• Apoorva Lakhia, Indian film director
• Apoorva D. Patel, Indian physicist
• Apoorva Sengupta (1938–2013), Indian army officer and cricketer

Feminine given name

• Apoorva Arora (born 1996), Indian actress and model
• Apoorva Muralinath (born 1989), Indian basketball player

Other

• Pratiksha Apurv (born 1964), Indian painter

References

1. Monier-Williams, Monier (1899). A Sanskrit-English dictionary : etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages. Oxford: Clarendon Press.