Shivay
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 14 babies a year in England and Wales.
Shivay by the numbers
In 2025, 14 babies in England and Wales were named Shivay. In the US, 19 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.
What we can tell you about Shivay
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Shivay. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Shivaayanother name for shiva; the supreme being12 in England and Wales (2025)
- Shivamauspicious or peaceful; a form of Shiva12 in England and Wales (2025)
- Shivathe auspicious one; hindu deity of destruction and renewal6 in England and Wales (2025)
- Shivanauspicious or gracious; from Shiva9 in England and Wales (2025)
- Shivai6 in the US (2017)
- Sivana hebrew month name; ninth month18 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Shivay
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