Shivansh
Shivansh was given to 168 boys in 2025, #1,211 among boys’ names; 1,229 Americans have been recorded with it since 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,220 Americans named Shivansh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 8.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shivansh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Shivansh mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Shivansh is “a male given name from Sanskrit used in India.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit शिवांश (śivāṃśa).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Shivansh?
#1,211 among boys’ names, 2025
Shivansh rose from #2,853 in 2015 to #1,211 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 21.9 to 98.4 per million.
168 babies in 2025, the peak
Shivansh peaked in 2025, when 168 boys were given it, #1,211 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 115 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 168 | #1,211 | 98.4 |
| 2024 | 115 | #1,538 | 66.7 |
| 2023 | 122 | #1,479 | 71.3 |
| 2022 | 110 | #1,606 | 63.0 |
| 2021 | 90 | #1,781 | 51.4 |
| 2020 | 103 | #1,590 | 59.7 |
| 2019 | 137 | #1,334 | 76.4 |
| 2018 | 87 | #1,775 | 47.9 |
| 2017 | 64 | #2,151 | 34.6 |
| 2016 | 57 | #2,332 | 30.0 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #2,853 | 21.9 |
| 2014 | 28 | #3,762 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 37 | #3,046 | 19.6 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,680 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,964 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,537 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 5 | #14,176 | 2.5 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,849 | 3.4 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,720 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,557 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 6 | #11,138 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Shivansh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shivansh has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shivansh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shivansh, and how old are they?
1,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,229 Americans ever recorded as Shivansh. The median Shivansh alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 8.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 68 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,150 |
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.
Where are babies named Shivansh born?
The states with the most babies named Shivansh are Texas, California and New Jersey, with 47% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 27 | #932 | 0.8× |
| California | 23 | #986 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 11 | #645 | 2.8× |
| New York | 9 | #1,279 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #902 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,003 | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,203 | 1.3× |
| Virginia | 7 | #953 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,243 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,254 | 0.3× |
Where Shivansh is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shivansh is most over-represented in California: since 2004 it was given 1.3 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 Shivansh 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 1,371 babies since 1880, Shivansh is the most given (90% of them). In 2025 it was given to 168 of their 187 babies (90%), 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 Shivansh
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 Shivansh and names like it
- Compare Shivansh and ShivaanshBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sShivansh peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shivansh since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Shivansh: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Shivansh.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Shivansh alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.