Shikhar

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Shikhar has been given to 20 babies in the U.S. since 2000. 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 2006, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Shikhar, 2017

1 in 715,000

Shikhar over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shikhar: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Sanskrit

What Shikhar means

Shikhar is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Shikhar is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 20 boys were recorded with the name Shikhar between 2000 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2006; its best national rank was #8,976 in 2000.

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 Shikhar?

Shikhar had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2017: 1 in 715,000; 5 of 3,577,106 births
Among boys only: 1 in 370,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2017: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 495,893 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Shikhar 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 2017 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 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shikhar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shikhars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shikhar was born before 2006 — so the typical Shikhar is around 19 today.

Median birth year: 2006; About 19 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 75.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 20; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 75.0% of all recorded uses (15).

Is Shikhar 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: —; 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 2006 (8)
Years since peak: 19; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #8,976; 2000

Shikhar around the world

Where Shikhar 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
2012–2012
#771
in 2012

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

Shikhar 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: #8,976; 2000
Peak year: 2006; 8 that year
First recorded: 2000
Last recorded: 2017
All-time count: 20
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Shikhar

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

Shivang Shivarth Shigeki Shivik Shimmy Shirrel Shikeem Shivesh Shivraj Shiheim Shivoham Shigeto Shintaro Shipley Shirly Shinya Shinji Shingo Shirrell Shigemi Shiron Shishir Shiheem Shivaan

Sibling names for Shikhar

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

For a sister

Taniya Melia Jazmyne Jayna Nyasia Tayla Lanie Estefany

For a brother

Paulo Yair Lavon Tye Deshaun Oswaldo Nathen Britton

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