Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shibu 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.
rarermore common
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.
Locally spelled Shivain US United States, SE Sweden, AU Australia and 9 more, Shivin IN India, BR Brazil, NO Norway and 6 more, Sivain MY Malaysia, SG Singapore, AE United Arab Emirates and 4 more and ศิวะin 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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
Hindi162K57%
79K28%
Bangla16K6%
Japanese7.3K3%
English5.6K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
Name
Records
Note
Hindi
161,611
57%
79,127
28%
Bangla
15,955
6%
Japanese
7,288
3%
English
5,571
2%
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other names spelled this way◐
Shibu is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.
English given name7.4K records spelled Shibu6 spellings in the group
Most recorded in India, United States, Australia, United Kingdom
Languages: English, German, Dutch
Also written Sĥíbû, Śhíbù
Malayalam given name2.0K records spelled Shibu4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in India
Also written ഷിബു, ഷിബ, Shiba
Amharic given name1.6K records spelled Shibu2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in India, United States, Nigeria, Malaysia
Also written ሺቡ
30 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.
Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.
Over time●
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Shibu in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1912–2015
Year
records
1912
1
1913
1
1916
1
1917
2
1918
1
1919
4
1920
10
1921
5
1922
9
1923
29
1924
13
1925
9
1926
6
1927
13
1928
5
1929
9
1930
8
1931
18
1932
41
1933
15
1934
27
1935
38
1936
41
1937
42
1938
43
1939
49
1940
64
1941
53
1942
89
1943
72
1944
91
1945
74
1946
121
1947
139
1948
99
1949
81
1950
153
1951
144
1952
204
1953
115
1954
145
1955
168
1956
223
1957
215
1958
205
1959
238
1960
229
1961
219
1962
323
1963
271
1964
289
1965
292
1966
299
1967
320
1968
287
1969
260
1970
294
1971
337
1972
338
1973
298
1974
313
1975
293
1976
312
1977
277
1978
309
1979
287
1980
260
1981
326
1982
394
1983
410
1984
384
1985
391
1986
288
1987
418
1988
264
1989
355
1990
395
1991
419
1992
484
1993
462
1994
473
1995
362
1996
238
1997
304
1998
110
1999
33
2000
4
2001
4
2002
1
2003
1
2008
56
2010
15
2011
20
2012
20
2013
17
2014
82
2015
12
INnaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 97 years between 1912–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 194 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
How common is the name Shibu?
We estimate roughly 41 thousand people bear Shibu (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Shibu have the most bearers?
Shibu is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled shiv.
Where is Shibu most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shibu is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 345 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is Shibu compared with other names?
In India, Shibu is the 40th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Shibu a male or female name?
Shibu 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
● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated
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 pageMondonomo, “Shibu” — the 40th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.