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How popular is “Shiva” in the USA?

Number of people named “Shiva” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Shiva” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Shiva” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Shiva” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Shiva” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Shiva” by birth year

This chart shows how “Shiva” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1968 5 0.00000148 5 100%
1971 5 0.000001457 5 100%
1976 6 0.000001977 6 100%
1978 7 0.000002206 7 100%
1979 6 0.000001803 6 100%
1980 6 0.000001742 6 -100%
1981 9 0.000002602 9 100%
1982 8 0.000002281 8 100%
1983 17 0.000004909 10 7 18%
1984 8 0.000002293 8 100%
1985 8 0.000002241 8 100%
1986 7 0.000001968 7 100%
1987 10 0.000002773 10 100%
1988 14 0.000003789 8 6 14%
1989 15 0.000003902 7 8 -7%
1990 17 0.000004301 8 9 -6%
1991 23 0.000005905 11 12 -4%
1992 14 0.000003645 7 7 0%
1993 20 0.000005305 13 7 30%
1994 16 0.000004304 7 9 -13%
1995 12 0.000003277 12 -100%
1996 24 0.00000658 12 12 0%
1997 18 0.000004964 18 -100%
1998 22 0.000005981 9 13 -18%
1999 21 0.000005685 8 13 -24%
2000 24 0.000006349 8 16 -33%
2001 27 0.000007213 7 20 -48%
2002 28 0.00000749 6 22 -57%
2003 22 0.000005786 5 17 -55%
2004 16 0.000004187 5 11 -38%
2005 25 0.000006502 6 19 -52%
2006 15 0.000003792 15 -100%
2007 26 0.000006504 9 17 -31%
2008 17 0.000004325 7 10 -18%
2009 11 0.000002879 11 -100%
2010 22 0.000005953 9 13 -18%
2011 8 0.000002187 8 -100%
2012 16 0.000004375 16 -100%
2013 15 0.000004114 15 -100%
2014 23 0.000006206 8 15 -30%
2015 7 0.000001891 7 -100%
2016 13 0.000003543 13 -100%
2017 13 0.000003635 13 -100%
2018 26 0.000007395 6 20 -54%
2019 13 0.000003745 13 -100%
2020 19 0.000005688 7 12 -26%
2021 30 0.000008855 6 24 -60%
2022 21 0.000006207 9 12 -14%
2023 23 0.000006946 23 -100%
2024 24 0.00000721 7 17 -42%

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  8. Shivaansh
  9. Shivaay
  10. Shivai
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