Shiva

Where Shiva comes from

Borrowed from Sanskrit शिव (śivá, “the auspicious one”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Shiva
  • Sanskrit
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1980
    First appearance
    #5,525 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1997
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1997
    Peak, #3,738
    18 babies named Shiva — more than any year before or since.
  4. 2011
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #8,767.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.