Shivang

#13,593 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Shivang has been given to 46 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #13,593 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Shivang, 2025

1 in 663,000

Shivang over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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 boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,593
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shivang 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 2025 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shivang. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shivangs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shivang was born before 1999 — so the typical Shivang is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
43.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
46
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 43.5% of all recorded uses (20).

Is Shivang 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
−4,973
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.56×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
55.6%
Peak was 1997 (9)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
50.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,314
1988

Spellings of Shivang

Shivang is not the most common spelling — Shivam is, with 46.1% against Shivang's 1.4%.

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.

Shivang around the world

Where Shivang 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 & Wales
    2021–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Shivang by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,593
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#6,314
1988
Peak year
1997
9 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
46
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Shivang

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

Sibling names for Shivang

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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