Sivi

given name · Latin script

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

Sivi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country. Recorded meaning: King of DvāravatL He was the son of Vāsudeva and a Caṇḍāla woman named Jambāvatī’.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye≈1 in 196K(inferred from the name graph)
  • FIFinland1 in 33K
  • SESweden1 in 162K

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.

Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)

≈420 people, est.

Sources
12 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

King of DvāravatL He was the son of Vāsudeva and a Caṇḍāla woman named Jambāvatī.’ J.VI .421.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sivi 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 Sivi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye≈420 est.≈1 in 196K—Sivi11
FI Finland1711 in 33K220——
US United States≈120 est.≈1 in 2.8M7Sivi12
SE Sweden631 in 162K63——
KE Kenya≈34 est.≈1 in 1.6M—Sivi9
NO Norway≈6 est.≈1 in 899K8——

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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present). 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)

Sivi is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, South Africa

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Śivi

  • Hindi surname50 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

    Also written Saw, Sav, Sivu, Siv, Savi

47 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)

Sivi is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In pi, A king of Jetuttara city, father of Sañjaya.’ ff. vi. 480. sivi Jātaka ] 1153

    as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)

  • In pi, A king of Ariṭṭhapura, father of the Bodhisatta.’ See the Sivi Jātaka.

    as a nameDictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)

  • In Latin, first-person singular perfect active indicative of sinō

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In lml, Lorius, Trichoglossus haematodus

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In tkp, Trichoglossus haematodus

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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)

  • Siv Åbergb. 1944SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actor

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 20 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Sivi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—30#38,143
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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

Where does the name Sivi come from?
King of DvāravatL He was the son of Vāsudeva and a Caṇḍāla woman named Jambāvatī.’ J.VI .421. Recorded by Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H).
What does the name Sivi mean?
Recorded meaning: King of DvāravatL He was the son of Vāsudeva and a Caṇḍāla woman named Jambāvatī.’
Is Sivi a male or female name?
Sivi is a female 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 Sivi have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 419 people named Sivi in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sivi.
Where is Sivi most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sivi is densest in Finland — about 1 in 33 thousand people — even though Türkiye holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Sivi?
In Finland, the national register counted 171 people named Sivi, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.

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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, “Sivi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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