Shib
given name · Hindi · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shib is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 40th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script.
- INIndia1 in 502◐
- SGSingapore1 in 2.8K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates1 in 3.8K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈41K ●
- #501 ●
- 7 ●
- Sources
- 257 ●
- 1 in 345 ◐
across 10 countries
of 16M given names
recorded for this name
2.2M records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Shiva in US United States, SE Sweden, AU Australia and 9 more, Shiv in IN India, BR Brazil, NO Norway and 6 more, Siva in MY Malaysia, SG Singapore, AE United Arab Emirates and 4 more and ศิวะ in TH Thailand.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #40 | 5,929,969 | 2.1M rec. | — | 195K | Shiv | 239 |
| SE Sweden | — | 29,590△ | 220 rec. | 1 in 345 | 30K | Shiva | 19 |
| MY Malaysia | #554 | 9,373 | 11K rec. | — | — | Siva | 64 |
| NO Norway | — | 6,999△ | 128 rec. | 1 in 781 | 18K | Shiv | 11 |
| TH Thailand | — | 6,770 | 3.8K rec. | — | #174,733 | ศิวะ | 69 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 6,184 | 4.8K rec. | — | listed | Shiv | 93 |
| AU Australia | — | 5,260 | 6.3K rec. | — | 1 | Shiva | 103 |
| SG Singapore | #174 | 3,804 | 5.6K rec. | — | — | Siva | 64 |
| CA Canada | — | 2,936 | 3.2K rec. | — | 5 | Shiv | 69 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #473 | 2,507 | 512 rec. | — | listed | Shiv | 23 |
| US United States | — | 2,204 | 60K rec. | 1 in 151K | 2.2K | Shiva | 257 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #187 | 1,959 | 2K rec. | — | — | Siva | 60 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hindi46K56%
- 28K34%
- Bangla4.8K6%
- English1.2K1%
- Vietnamese5301%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | 46,412 | 56% |
| 28,394 | 34% | |
| Bangla | 4,772 | 6% |
| English | 1,227 | 1% |
| Vietnamese | 530 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1904 | 1 |
| 1917 | 1 |
| 1919 | 1 |
| 1921 | 2 |
| 1922 | 1 |
| 1923 | 5 |
| 1924 | 7 |
| 1925 | 3 |
| 1926 | 1 |
| 1927 | 4 |
| 1928 | 4 |
| 1929 | 3 |
| 1930 | 7 |
| 1931 | 7 |
| 1932 | 13 |
| 1933 | 7 |
| 1934 | 13 |
| 1935 | 8 |
| 1936 | 12 |
| 1937 | 32 |
| 1938 | 12 |
| 1939 | 23 |
| 1940 | 20 |
| 1941 | 27 |
| 1942 | 39 |
| 1943 | 25 |
| 1944 | 34 |
| 1945 | 26 |
| 1946 | 48 |
| 1947 | 55 |
| 1948 | 31 |
| 1949 | 48 |
| 1950 | 55 |
| 1951 | 55 |
| 1952 | 69 |
| 1953 | 50 |
| 1954 | 60 |
| 1955 | 57 |
| 1956 | 101 |
| 1957 | 80 |
| 1958 | 75 |
| 1959 | 121 |
| 1960 | 66 |
| 1961 | 103 |
| 1962 | 120 |
| 1963 | 94 |
| 1964 | 108 |
| 1965 | 122 |
| 1966 | 116 |
| 1967 | 125 |
| 1968 | 101 |
| 1969 | 125 |
| 1970 | 116 |
| 1971 | 126 |
| 1972 | 144 |
| 1973 | 143 |
| 1974 | 121 |
| 1975 | 142 |
| 1976 | 122 |
| 1977 | 97 |
| 1978 | 101 |
| 1979 | 110 |
| 1980 | 54 |
| 1981 | 55 |
| 1982 | 56 |
| 1983 | 47 |
| 1984 | 41 |
| 1985 | 45 |
| 1986 | 29 |
| 1987 | 44 |
| 1988 | 31 |
| 1989 | 46 |
| 1990 | 41 |
| 1991 | 41 |
| 1992 | 62 |
| 1993 | 49 |
| 1994 | 47 |
| 1995 | 45 |
| 1996 | 22 |
| 1997 | 28 |
| 1998 | 12 |
| 1999 | 3 |
| 2008 | 9 |
| 2010 | 9 |
| 2011 | 3 |
| 2012 | 7 |
| 2013 | 1 |
| 2014 | 10 |
| 2015 | 2 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 89 years between 1904–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 170 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Shib?
- We estimate roughly 41 thousand people bear Shib (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Shib have the most bearers?
- Shib is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled shiv.
- Where is Shib most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shib is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 345 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Shib compared with other names?
- In India, Shib is the 40th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
- Is Shib a male or female name?
- Shib is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Shib” — the 40th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.