Shiva — #5512 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Shiva

The Social Security Administration has registered 518 babies named Shiva between 1980 and 2024, spanning 45 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Shiva currently holds the #5512 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 24 babies received it in a single year. Shiva is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 284 additional births since 1968.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shiva performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 158 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Shiva shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 40 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Shiva in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shiva in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 518 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.