Meaning not yet researched.
Shivam: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 26 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,285 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,285 in 1998; #4,121 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shivam in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,121 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #1,285.
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Shivam: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 26 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,285 in 1998 · most boys in one year: 94 (1998).
In 2025, 26 US boys were named Shivam, making it the 4,121st most common boys’ name of the year, down 444 places from #3,677 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 31 boys named Shivam in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,285, reached in 1998. That year also had the most boys given the name: 94. For comparison, it was #2,637 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shivam in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1986 with 5 babies. In all, 1,558 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 534 babies named Shivam.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 283 US boys were named Shivam; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 39. In 2025 that was about 1 in 65,695 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Shivom and Shivoham are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Shivom (7), Shivoham (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Shivam in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 26 | #4,121 |
| 2024 | — | — | 31 | #3,677 |
| 2023 | — | — | 20 | #5,039 |
| 2022 | — | — | 22 | #4,677 |
| 2021 | — | — | 20 | #4,904 |
| 2020 | — | — | 31 | #3,554 |
| 2019 | — | — | 35 | #3,333 |
| 2018 | — | — | 30 | #3,688 |
| 2017 | — | — | 39 | #3,059 |
| 2016 | — | — | 29 | #3,761 |
| 2015 | — | — | 47 | #2,637 |
| 2014 | — | — | 35 | #3,210 |
| 2013 | — | — | 35 | #3,177 |
| 2012 | — | — | 47 | #2,622 |
| 2011 | — | — | 44 | #2,737 |
| 2010 | — | — | 59 | #2,234 |
| 2009 | — | — | 50 | #2,551 |
| 2008 | — | — | 51 | #2,503 |
| 2007 | — | — | 47 | #2,637 |
| 2006 | — | — | 41 | #2,819 |
| 2005 | — | — | 47 | #2,459 |
| 2004 | — | — | 47 | #2,415 |
| 2003 | — | — | 60 | #1,957 |
| 2002 | — | — | 44 | #2,365 |
| 2001 | — | — | 73 | #1,627 |
| 2000 | — | — | 74 | #1,605 |
| 1999 | — | — | 53 | #1,876 |
| 1998 | — | — | 94 | #1,285 |
| 1997 | — | — | 72 | #1,485 |
| 1996 | — | — | 50 | #1,837 |
| 1995 | — | — | 48 | #1,833 |
| 1994 | — | — | 28 | #2,676 |
| 1993 | — | — | 30 | #2,496 |
| 1992 | — | — | 27 | #2,659 |
| 1991 | — | — | 30 | #2,392 |
| 1990 | — | — | 12 | #4,635 |
| 1989 | — | — | 7 | #6,831 |
| 1988 | — | — | 10 | #4,730 |
| 1987 | — | — | 8 | #5,387 |
| 1986 | — | — | 5 | #7,672 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).