Shiya
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: SSA, 2024
Shiya is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- ESSpain1 in 1.6M(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 7.4Kfew recordsas Siya
- INIndia≈1 in 11Kas Siya
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 Shiya 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 112 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 231K (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 named Siya, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Singapore, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Siya in IN India, US United States, ZA South Africa and 2 more.
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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shiya 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 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | 400 | Siya | 112 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈8,700 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Siya | 12 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 73K | — | Siya | 2 |
| US United States | 2,042as Shia | 1 in 163K | 1.8K | Siya | 88 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Siya | 4 |
| ES Spain | 32 | 1 in 1.6M | 32 | — | 4 |
| SG Singapore | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 231K | — | Shiya | 7 |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Shiya is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of しや
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Zulu, to leave, to leave behind
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ss, to leave
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dag, 1. caution 2. precaution 3. suspicion {vide siya)
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Lim Shiyab. 1986SGSingaporean association football 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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 264 | #25,961 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 98 | #25,961 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 32 | #40,164 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 25 | #23,093 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 15 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 10 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Shiya a male or female name?
- Shiya is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: United States (Census Bureau, 2020). We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Shiya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 134 thousand people named Siya in India, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Shiya?
- In Spain, the national register counted 32 people named Shiya, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Shiya?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shiyaThe 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, “Shiya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.