Sìva
given name · Latin script
Sìva is a 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: The name Of a god.’ A devaputta, named Siva, is mentioned in the Saṃyutta2 as visiting the Buddha and speaking several verses on the benefit of consorting only with the good.
- KWKuwait≈1 in 3.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 4K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 4.2K
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 Sìva 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 3.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900,000 named Shiv, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Kuwait, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Shiv in IN India, BR Brazil, QA Qatar and 1 more, 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)The name Of a god.’ A devaputta, named Siva, is mentioned in the Saṃyutta2 as visiting the Buddha and speaking several verses on the benefit of consorting only with the good. I t is interesting that Buddhaghosa makes no particular comment on the name in this context. In the Samantapāsādikā.’ however, he refers to the worship of the Sivaliñga. mention is made of KhandadevaSivādi¬ paricaraṇaṃ.
Cited for this meaning 5
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
- Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- Sunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sìva 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 |
| BR Brazil | — | 45 | 1 in 4.7M | 28K | Shiv | 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 Sìva mean, and where does it come from?
- The name Of a god.’ A devaputta, named Siva, is mentioned in the Saṃyutta2 as visiting the Buddha and speaking several verses on the benefit of consorting only with the good. Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India and Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H) and 3 other sources.
- In which country does Sìva have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 million people named Shiv in India, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sìva?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 45 people named Sìva in 2022, about 1 in 4.7 million residents.
- How common is Sìva compared with other names?
- In India, Sìva is the 38th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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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, “Sìva” — the 38th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.