Shiv
#1,753 for boys in 2025, 92 births
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 87 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,193since 1984
Shiv over time
Rank among boys' names. Shiv has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,753 | 92 |
| 2024 | #1,776 | 92 |
| 2023 | #1,774 | 91 |
| 2022 | #1,826 | 88 |
| 2021 | #2,096 | 69 |
| 2020 | #1,962 | 73 |
| 2019 | #2,188 | 64 |
| 2018 | #2,065 | 69 |
| 2017 | #1,871 | 78 |
| 2016 | #1,828 | 82 |
| 2015 | #1,983 | 73 |
| 2014 | #1,730 | 87 |
| 2013 | #1,964 | 70 |
| 2012 | #2,036 | 68 |
| 2011 | #2,145 | 61 |
| 2010 | #2,037 | 67 |
| 2009 | #2,010 | 69 |
| 2008 | #1,981 | 71 |
| 2007 | #1,830 | 79 |
| 2006 | #1,943 | 69 |
| 2005 | #2,114 | 58 |
| 2004 | #1,911 | 64 |
| 2003 | #1,987 | 58 |
| 2002 | #1,888 | 59 |
| 2001 | #2,117 | 49 |
| 2000 | #1,993 | 51 |
| 1999 | #2,098 | 45 |
| 1998 | #2,126 | 43 |
| 1997 | #1,991 | 45 |
| 1996 | #2,483 | 31 |
| 1995 | #2,346 | 33 |
| 1994 | #2,618 | 28 |
| 1993 | #3,246 | 20 |
| 1992 | #3,338 | 19 |
| 1991 | #3,325 | 18 |
| 1990 | #5,382 | 9 |
| 1989 | #4,271 | 12 |
| 1988 | #5,200 | 8 |
| 1987 | #6,089 | 6 |
| 1986 | #3,131 | 15 |
| 1985 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #6,315 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Shiv! It came in at #6,315, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1984–1985, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Shiv is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#618 · 1 in 4,153
- Massachusetts#639 · 1 in 4,906
- Georgia#841 · 1 in 5,975
- Pennsylvania#1,039 · 1 in 9,872
- Illinois#1,168 · 1 in 10,695
Best ever in a state: #462 in New Jersey, 1997.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #618 | 10 | 1 in 4,153 |
| Massachusetts | #639 | 6 | 1 in 4,906 |
| Georgia | #841 | 9 | 1 in 5,975 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,039 | 6 | 1 in 9,872 |
| Illinois | #1,168 | 6 | 1 in 10,695 |
| New York | #1,216 | 9 | 1 in 11,111 |
| Florida | #1,348 | 7 | 1 in 13,991 |
| Texas | #1,941 | 7 | 1 in 26,459 |
| California | #2,284 | 6 | 1 in 37,281 |
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See more about Shiv
- 23 spots since 2024 (#1,776 → #1,753)
- 209 spots since 2020 (#1,962 → #1,753)
- 230 spots since 2015 (#1,983 → #1,753)
- Debuted 1984
- Peaked 2014 at #1,730 (87 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 18,566 boys born in 2025 were named Shiv (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,730 in 2014, was only 1 in 22,079 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.8% of all boys named Shiv (719) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 51 | #3,131 (1986) | #5,255 |
| 1990s | 291 | #1,991 (1997) | #2,895 |
| 2000s | 627 | #1,830 (2007) | #1,977 |
| 2010s | 719 | #1,730 (2014) | #1,985 |
| 2020s | 505 | #1,753 (2025) | #1,865 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Shiv in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 23,143 of them was named Shiv, which outranked 87.1% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,811Scout83
- #1,811Warner83
- #1,811Yazan83
- #1,828Shiv82
- #1,828Amin82
- #1,828Caesar82
- #1,828Cai82
- #1,845Aahil81
- #1,845Anish81
- #1,845Azaiah81
Tied with 16 names at #1,828; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.