Meaning not yet researched.
Shivani: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,292 in 1995.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,292 in 1995; #6,086 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shivani in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,086 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1995, at #1,292.
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Shivani: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,292 in 1995 · most girls in one year: 132 (1998).
In 2025, 20 US girls were named Shivani, making it the 6,086th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,716 places from #4,370 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 33 girls named Shivani in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,292, reached in 1995. The most girls given the name in a single year was 132, in 1998. For comparison, it was #3,910 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shivani in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 7 babies. In all, 2,869 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,013 babies named Shivani.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 309 US girls were named Shivani; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 45. In 2025 that was about 1 in 80,363 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Shivanya, Shivonni and Shivany 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: Shivanya (111), Shivonni (6), Shivany (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 Shivani 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 | 20 | #6,086 | — | — |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,370 | — | — |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,720 | — | — |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,957 | — | — |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,377 | — | — |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,148 | — | — |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,993 | — | — |
| 2018 | 45 | #3,489 | — | — |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,985 | — | — |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,576 | — | — |
| 2015 | 39 | #3,910 | — | — |
| 2014 | 43 | #3,645 | — | — |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,638 | — | — |
| 2012 | 49 | #3,356 | — | — |
| 2011 | 75 | #2,453 | — | — |
| 2010 | 60 | #2,899 | — | — |
| 2009 | 69 | #2,669 | — | — |
| 2008 | 73 | #2,576 | — | — |
| 2007 | 97 | #2,099 | — | — |
| 2006 | 98 | #2,028 | — | — |
| 2005 | 78 | #2,310 | — | — |
| 2004 | 97 | #1,940 | — | — |
| 2003 | 100 | #1,855 | — | — |
| 2002 | 119 | #1,572 | — | — |
| 2001 | 118 | #1,581 | — | — |
| 2000 | 111 | #1,599 | — | — |
| 1999 | 128 | #1,387 | — | — |
| 1998 | 132 | #1,339 | — | — |
| 1997 | 131 | #1,325 | — | — |
| 1996 | 120 | #1,392 | — | — |
| 1995 | 130 | #1,292 | — | — |
| 1994 | 88 | #1,705 | — | — |
| 1993 | 95 | #1,608 | — | — |
| 1992 | 74 | #1,905 | — | — |
| 1991 | 58 | #2,267 | — | — |
| 1990 | 57 | #2,255 | — | — |
| 1989 | 36 | #3,038 | — | — |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,152 | — | — |
| 1987 | 31 | #3,089 | — | — |
| 1986 | 31 | #3,045 | — | — |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,230 | — | — |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,511 | — | — |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,094 | — | — |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,812 | — | — |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,705 | — | — |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,835 | — | — |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,110 | — | — |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,552 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,456 | — | — |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,834 | — | — |
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).