Sivå
surname · Latin script
Sivå is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: The name Of a god.’ A devaputta, named Siva, is mentioned in the Saṃyutta2 as visiting the Buddha and speaking several verses on the benefit of consorting only with the good.
- SESweden1 in 77K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 117K
- DKDenmark1 in 159K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- 1 in 77K (inferred from the name graph)
1,561 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Siva in US United States.
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)
The name Of a god.’ A devaputta, named Siva, is mentioned in the Saṃyutta2 as visiting the Buddha and speaking several verses on the benefit of consorting only with the good. I t is interesting that Buddhaghosa makes no particular comment on the name in this context. In the Samantapāsādikā.’ however, he refers to the worship of the Sivaliñga. mention is made of KhandadevaSivādi¬ paricaraṇaṃ.
Sources 5
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
- Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sivå 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.
1,561 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 Sivå mean, and where does it come from?
- The name Of a god.’ A devaputta, named Siva, is mentioned in the Saṃyutta2 as visiting the Buddha and speaking several verses on the benefit of consorting only with the good. Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India and Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H) and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Sivå have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Sivå, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled siva.
- Where is Sivå most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sivå is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 77 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Sivå?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,561 people named Sivå in 2020, about 1 in 213 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/siv%C3%A5The 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, “Sivå”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.