Shivana
#16,912 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shivana has been given to 15 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #16,912 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Shivana, 2025
1 in 663,000
Shivana over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Shivana?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #16,912
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shivana sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shivana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shivanas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shivana was born before 1996 — so the typical Shivana is around 29 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 66.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 33.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 15
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 66.7% of all recorded uses (10).
Is Shivana 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 1993 (5)
- Years since peak
- 32
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Shivana
Shivana is not the most common spelling — Shana is, with 49.5% against Shivana's 0.03%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Shivana around the world
Where Shivana 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.
- England & Wales1999–1999#3,900in 1999
- France2010–2024#7,509in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Shivana by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shivana
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shivana
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.