Girls' name · since 2015
Shivya
Since 2015, U.S. Social Security records show 95 babies named Shivya, peaking in 2018. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- #27,718 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #9,370 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 95
- born since 2015
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Shivya is the #9370 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 95 recorded since 2015.
Shivya has 95 recorded births among girls since 2015, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #9370 as of the latest data, more common than 46% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2015 to 2025.
- #27,718 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #9,370 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 95 born since 2015
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Shivya ranks #27,718 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #9,370 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 95 born since 2015, peaking in the 2020s.
- #27,718 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #9,370 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 95
- born since 2015
- 2020s
- peak decade
Shivya's 95 recorded births place it above 61.64% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Shivya compares
95 24th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Shivya's all-time total is 75% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Shivya | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 95 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 20 | 21 | 19,840 |
Shivya's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Shivya splits its recorded history at 2020: 54% of all births land in the more recent half, 46% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2015 (6 births) -- compare that against the 2018 peak of 20 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Shivya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–2025
- Peak year (2018)
- 20
- Annual births at peak, across 11 years of records
Shivya by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (51 births, 54% of the file).
2020s was Shivya's strongest decade.
51 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 54% of all-time use.
Shivya births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
44 births
- 2020s
2020s
51 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 51 births (54% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Shivya: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2018)
Similar record span (~10 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2015–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Shivya draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.