Shivani
Shivani was given to 20 girls in 2025, #6,085 among girls’ names; 2,869 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,830 Americans named Shivani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 18 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shivani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Shivani mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Shivani is “a female given name from Sanskrit used in India.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit शिवानी (śivānī).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Shivani?
#6,085 among girls’ names, 2025
Shivani fell from #3,909 in 2015 to #6,085 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 21.8 to 12.4 per million.
132 babies in 1998, the peak
Shivani peaked in 1998, when 132 girls were given it, #1,337 among girls’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #6,085 | 12.4 |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,369 | 20.4 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,715 | 13.7 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,954 | 12.8 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,373 | 14.6 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,145 | 15.5 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,992 | 22.0 |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,488 | 26.5 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,984 | 22.0 |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,576 | 24.8 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #3,909 | 21.8 |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,643 | 24.1 |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,636 | 24.5 |
| 2012 | 49 | #3,355 | 27.8 |
| 2011 | 75 | #2,452 | 42.6 |
| 2010 | 60 | #2,898 | 33.8 |
| 2009 | 69 | #2,668 | 37.6 |
| 2008 | 73 | #2,576 | 38.6 |
| 2007 | 97 | #2,099 | 50.5 |
| 2006 | 98 | #2,028 | 51.5 |
| 2005 | 78 | #2,308 | 42.2 |
| 2004 | 97 | #1,939 | 52.8 |
| 2003 | 100 | #1,854 | 54.7 |
| 2002 | 119 | #1,571 | 66.2 |
| 2001 | 118 | #1,580 | 65.5 |
| 2000 | 111 | #1,597 | 61.1 |
| 1999 | 128 | #1,385 | 72.2 |
| 1998 | 132 | #1,337 | 74.7 |
| 1997 | 131 | #1,323 | 75.3 |
| 1996 | 120 | #1,390 | 68.5 |
| 1995 | 130 | #1,289 | 73.9 |
| 1994 | 88 | #1,700 | 49.3 |
| 1993 | 95 | #1,606 | 52.5 |
| 1992 | 74 | #1,900 | 40.1 |
| 1991 | 58 | #2,261 | 30.9 |
| 1990 | 57 | #2,250 | 30.0 |
| 1989 | 36 | #3,032 | 19.5 |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,147 | 18.0 |
| 1987 | 31 | #3,086 | 17.8 |
| 1986 | 31 | #3,043 | 18.1 |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,229 | 16.3 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,510 | 14.3 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,093 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,810 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,704 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,834 | 12.6 |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,109 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,550 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,454 | 3.9 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,832 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shivani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shivani has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shivani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shivani, and how old are they?
2,830 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,869 Americans ever recorded as Shivani. The median Shivani alive today is 25 years old; half are between 18 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 4,746 people named Shivani (4,739 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,698 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 49 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 829 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,520 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 431 |
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 Shivani born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #3,470 | 1.3× |
Where Shivani is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shivani is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1975 it was given 3.5 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 girls’ 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 Shivani with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,980 babies since 1880, Shivani is the most given (96% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 35 babies (57%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shivani
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 Shivani and names like it
- Compare Shivani and ShivanyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShivani peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shivani since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Shivani: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Shivani.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shivani alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.