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Shashvat

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Shashvat has been given to 6 babies in the U.S. since 2015. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2015, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Shashvat, 2015

1 in 617,000

Shashvat over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shashvat: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Sanskrit

What Shashvat means

Shashvat is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Shashvat is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Shashvat between 2015 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2015; its best national rank was #11,860 in 2015.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Shashvat?

Shashvat had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 617,000
6 of 3,701,574 births
Among boys only
1 in 319,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
427,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shashvat sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2015 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 427,624 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shashvat. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shashvats were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shashvat was born before 2015 — so the typical Shashvat is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Shashvat rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2015 (6)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#11,860
2015

Shashvat around the world

Where Shashvat ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Shashvat by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,860
2015
Peak year
2015
6 that year
First recorded
2015
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shashvat

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Shashvat

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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