Shïv
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shïv is a male given name 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: First attested 1915. From chive, chieve, chife, chiv (“knife”), from Romani chive, chiv, chivvomengro (“knife, dagger, blade”).
- INIndia≈1 in 770(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 3.9Kas Siva
- SGSingapore≈1 in 4Kas Siva
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 Shïv 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 770 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900,000 people, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(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)First attested 1915. From chive, chieve, chife, chiv (“knife”), from Romani chive, chiv, chivvomengro (“knife, dagger, blade”).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shïv 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 | — | 2,982as Shiva | 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 Shïv mean, and where does it come from?
- First attested 1915. From chive, chieve, chife, chiv (“knife”), from Romani chive, chiv, chivvomengro (“knife, dagger, blade”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Shïv a male or female name?
- Shïv 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.
- In which country does Shïv have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 million people named Shïv in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shiv.
- How common is the name Shïv?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,982 people named Shiva in 2020, about 1 in 112 thousand residents.
- How common is Shïv compared with other names?
- In India, Shïv 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%AFvThe 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, “Shïv” — the 38th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.