Şivan

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Şivan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From *şiban < *şubân, related to Persian شبان (šobân).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 388K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 48K
  • DKDenmark1 in 210K

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)

858 people, 2020

Sources
206 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 48K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sivan in US United States, NL Netherlands.

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)

From *şiban < *şubân, related to Persian شبان (šobân).

Sources 1

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Şivan 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.

Where Şivan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States8581 in 388K685Sivan206
SE Sweden2141 in 48K214—10
PL Poland1181 in 324K109—1
BR Brazil1011 in 2.1M101—1
NL Netherlands501 in 346K34Sivan8
DK Denmark281 in 210K16—1
FI Finland161 in 348K32—1

858 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: 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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Şivan is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Israel, United States

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Сивань, Сиван, Sivan, Сівань, Сіван

  • Azerbaijani given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria

    Also written Sivan

  • Hindi given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Israel, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Hindi, Khmer, Urdu

    Also written Sivan, Sivân, Sîväñ

27 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Şivan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Kurdish, Shepherd, a trusted person who watches over, protects, and guides the community

    as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Şivan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#41,257
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20262#43,544

Reference works 1

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Şivan mean, and where does it come from?
From *şiban < *şubân, related to Persian شبان (šobân). Recorded by Wiktionary.
Is Şivan a male or female name?
Şivan is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Şivan have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 858 people named Şivan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sivan.
Where is Şivan most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Şivan is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 48 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Şivan?
In the United States, the national register counted 858 people named Şivan in 2020, about 1 in 388 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%9Fivan

The 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, “Şivan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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