Shîvà
surname · Latin script
Shîvà is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where it is the 38th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Hebrew שִׁבְעָה (shiv'á, “seven”), referring to the number of days that shiva spans. Shîvà is also written ศิวะ in Thai, শিব in Bengali and శివ in Telugu.
- QAQatar≈1 in 4.4Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- SESweden1 in 35K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 54K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Shîvà itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- #504 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 286 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900,000 named Shiv, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Qatar, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Shîvà in other scripts: Latin, Thai, Bengali and 4 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Shiv in IN India, QA Qatar, ID Indonesia, Siva in MY Malaysia, KW Kuwait, SG Singapore, Shiva in US United States and Shibu in BD Bangladesh.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Hebrew שִׁבְעָה (shiv'á, “seven”), referring to the number of days that shiva spans.
Cited for this meaning 2
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shîvà counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #38 | ≈1,900,000 est. | ≈1 in 770 | 18K | Shiv | 251 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | listed | Shiv | 14 |
| MY Malaysia | #651 | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Siva | 66 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Shibu | 31 |
| US United States | — | 2,982 | 1 in 112K | 2.2K | Shiva | 286 |
| SG Singapore | #235 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Siva | 65 |
| KW Kuwait | #83 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Siva | 19 |
| QA Qatar | #222 | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Shiv | 21 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Shîvà mean, and where does it come from?
- Hebrew שִׁבְעָה (shiv'á, “seven”), referring to the number of days that shiva spans. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people named Shîvà?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 million people named Shiv in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Shîvà?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,982 people named Shîvà in 2020, about 1 in 112 thousand residents.
- How common is Shîvà compared with other names?
- In India, Shîvà is the 38th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sh%C3%AEv%C3%A0The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Shîvà” — ranked 663rd in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.