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Shivani

#6,085 in 2025Girls' name

Wife of Shiva 1

Shivani has been given to 2,869 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #6,085 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 132 recorded.

Babies named Shivani, 2025

1 in 166,000

Shivani over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shivani: meaning, origin, and history

Wife of Shiva 1

Sanskrit

What Shivani means

Shivani means “wife of Shiva 1”.

Origin, language, and formation

Shivani is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,869 girls were recorded with the name Shivani between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 132 in 1998; its best national rank was #1,289 in 1995.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,145 in 2020 to #6,085 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,909 in 2015 to #6,085 in 2025.

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 Shivani?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 80,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,085
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shivani sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shivani. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shivanis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shivani was born before 2001 — so the typical Shivani is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
35.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
51.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,869
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 35.3% of all recorded uses (1,013).

Is Shivani 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
−1,716
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−940
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,176
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.51×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
15.2%
Peak was 1998 (132)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,289
1995

Spellings of Shivani

Shivani is not the most common spelling — Shani is, with 40.4% against Shivani's 25.6%.

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.

Where Shivani is used

Across 1910–2025, Shivani was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 62,661 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 14,286
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3Illinois1 in 50,000
  4. 4New York1 in 50,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 100,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 100,000
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Shivani has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shivani around the world

Where Shivani 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
    1996–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    1995–2025
    #4,971
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2000–2012
    #563
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Shivani

People whose public names include Shivani, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Shivani by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,085
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 940
Best rank ever
#1,289
1995
Peak year
1998
132 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,869
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Shivani

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

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Names with a curve like Shivani

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Shivani, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Shivani

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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