Various explanations of the name "Ravana" can be found.

The literal translation from Sanskrit:

(rAvaNa) is "Singing", Sharp. In Sanskrit the literal translation of
(sItA rAvaNaM na gaNayati sma) mentioned as Sita did not care for Ravana.[3]

In Tamil, literal translation the name Ravanaswaran mentioned as "A person with ultimate rights"
(Iraavanan = "Ira" (Tamil: ) "Avanan" (Tamil: ), "a boy with incomparable
beauty"[citation needed] and "A Man with strong principles".[4] A third explanation from
Pargiter, "Ravana" may originally have been a Sanskritisation of Iraivan, the Tamil or Dravidian
for a lord or king.[5][6]

Ravana had many other popular names such as Dasis Ravana, Dasis Sakvithi Maha Ravana,
Dashaanan, Raavan, Ravula, Lankeshwar, Lankeshwaran, Ravanaeshwaran all signifying the
qualities of his life. Variations of the names (alphabetically) include the following:

Assamese: [abn]
Bengali: Raabon
Burmese: [jwnaa]
Devanagari: Raavan a
Gujarati:
Indonesian: Rahwana
Javanese: Rahwana or Dasamuka (from Daamukha or 'ten-faced')
Kannada: Raavana
Kashmiri: Raavun
Khmer:
or
(ten-faced) or
(ten-necked)
Lao: Raphanasuan
Malay: Rawana or Wana
Malayalam: Raavanan
Maranao: Lawana

Marathi: Raawan
Nepali: Rawan
Thai: Rawana or corrupted as Rap, but more commonly Thotsakan (from
Dashakantha or 'ten-necked')
Tamil: Iraavanan
Telugu:
Rvan a
Sanskrit: Rvan a
Sinhalese: Ravana
Yuan: Rahbanasun
Marwari: Raavan Murarka
Odia: Rabana