Shivam
Shivam was given to 26 boys in 2025, #4,120 among boys’ names; 1,558 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,530 Americans named Shivam and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 13 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shivam by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shivam?
#4,120 among boys’ names, 2025
Shivam fell from #2,636 in 2015 to #4,120 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 24.5 to 15.2 per million.
94 babies in 1998, the peak
Shivam peaked in 1998, when 94 boys were given it, #1,282 among boys’ names. The 26 births of 2025 are 28% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #4,120 | 15.2 |
| 2024 | 31 | #3,675 | 18.0 |
| 2023 | 20 | #5,034 | 11.7 |
| 2022 | 22 | #4,673 | 12.6 |
| 2021 | 20 | #4,900 | 11.4 |
| 2020 | 31 | #3,552 | 18.0 |
| 2019 | 35 | #3,330 | 19.5 |
| 2018 | 30 | #3,684 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,058 | 21.1 |
| 2016 | 29 | #3,760 | 15.3 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 47 | #2,636 | 24.5 |
| 2014 | 35 | #3,208 | 18.2 |
| 2013 | 35 | #3,175 | 18.5 |
| 2012 | 47 | #2,621 | 24.8 |
| 2011 | 44 | #2,736 | 23.2 |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,233 | 30.8 |
| 2009 | 50 | #2,550 | 25.2 |
| 2008 | 51 | #2,502 | 25.0 |
| 2007 | 47 | #2,637 | 22.6 |
| 2006 | 41 | #2,818 | 19.9 |
| 2005 | 47 | #2,455 | 23.5 |
| 2004 | 47 | #2,411 | 23.7 |
| 2003 | 60 | #1,953 | 30.4 |
| 2002 | 44 | #2,361 | 22.7 |
| 2001 | 73 | #1,623 | 37.6 |
| 2000 | 74 | #1,601 | 37.7 |
| 1999 | 53 | #1,873 | 27.6 |
| 1998 | 94 | #1,282 | 49.2 |
| 1997 | 72 | #1,482 | 38.2 |
| 1996 | 50 | #1,833 | 26.4 |
| 1995 | 48 | #1,828 | 25.2 |
| 1994 | 28 | #2,671 | 14.5 |
| 1993 | 30 | #2,490 | 15.3 |
| 1992 | 27 | #2,653 | 13.5 |
| 1991 | 30 | #2,386 | 14.8 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,629 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,824 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,725 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,380 | 4.3 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,666 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Shivam a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shivam has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shivam: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shivam, and how old are they?
1,530 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,558 Americans ever recorded as Shivam. The median Shivam alive today is 21 years old; half are between 13 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 2,025 people named Shivam (15 women and girls, 2,010 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,397 born in the U.S. The Census count is 45% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 245 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 887 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 397 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Shivam born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #2,760 | 1.1× |
Where Shivam is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shivam is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1986 it was given 5.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shivam with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shivam
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Shivam and names like it
- Compare Shivam and BrytonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShivam peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shivam since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Shivam.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shivam alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.