Shibu
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shibu is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nepal than in any other country. In India it is the 38th most common given name.
- KWKuwait≈1 in 1.7Kas Siva(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 2.4Kas Siva
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 3.5Kas 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 Shibu itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nepal (inferred from the name graph)
- #504 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 286 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈36,000 named Shiva, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, 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 and Shiva in US United States, NP Nepal.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shibu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP Nepal | — | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 836 | 1 | Shiva | 70 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | listed | Shiv | 14 |
| MY Malaysia | #651 | ≈9,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Siva | 66 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈8,500 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Shibu | 31 |
| US United States | — | 2,982as Shiva | 1 in 112K | 2.2K | Shiva | 286 |
| SG Singapore | #235 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Siva | 65 |
| KW Kuwait | #83 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Siva | 19 |
| QA Qatar | #222 | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Shiv | 21 |
| IN India | #38 | — | — | 18K | Shiv | 251 |
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; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Attested in 18 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 2K | #323 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 1.6K | #3,730 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 261 | #78,873 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 113 | #146,201 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- Is Shibu a male or female name?
- Shibu 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 Shibu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named Shiva in Nepal, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Shibu?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,982 people named Shiva in 2020, about 1 in 112 thousand residents.
- How common is Shibu compared with other names?
- In India, Shibu is the 38th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shibuThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Shibu” — the 38th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.