Shiwa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Rōmaji transcription of しわ (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries
Shiwa is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 596K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 978K
- INIndia≈1 in 1.2M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 34 (measured from records)
- 1 in 596K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Rōmaji transcription of しわ
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shiwa 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 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 8 | Shiwa | 34 |
| NL Netherlands | 29 | 1 in 596K | 22 | Shiwa | 3 |
| US United States | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 27M | — | Shiwa | 8 |
| SE Sweden | 7 | 1 in 1.5M | 7 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 6 | 1 in 978K | 6 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 5M | 2 | — | — |
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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Hina Shiwab. 1999JPJapanese badminton player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Shiwa mean, and where does it come from?
- Rōmaji transcription of しわ Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Shiwa a male or female name?
- Shiwa is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Shiwa?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Shiwa in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shiwa. After it come Netherlands, United States, Sweden and Denmark; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Shiwa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shiwa is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 596 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Shiwa?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 29 people named Shiwa, about 1 in 596 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Shiwa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shiwaThe 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, “Shiwa” — ranked 141666th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.