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INDIAN NAME REFERENCE

Shivan

Shiva

Shivan means “Shiva”.

Origin language
Hindi / Sanskrit
First letter
S
Historical records
5,626

MEANING & CONTEXT

What does Shivan mean?

Shivn represents Shivan, a personal-name form of Shiva. Shiva's name carries the sense of auspiciousness and identifies the deity connected with yogic contemplation.

Meaning themes

Spellings in Indian scripts

Devanagari

शिवन

Conventional spelling

About spelling and pronunciation

HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS

Shivan in Indian usage

5,626 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.

These totals and margins describe the spelling शिवन.

Mostly recorded for boys (93.2%) in these historical records.

  • Recorded as female: 383 records (6.8%).
  • Recorded as male: 5,243 records (93.2%).

By birth decade

Shivan: records by birth decade1940s: 5621940s1950s: 1,1521950s1960s: 1,3691960s1970s: 1,2301970s1980s: 7961980s1990s: 3181990sOther decades: 199Other decades
Recorded birth years 1910–2001.
Birth decadeRecords
1940s562
1950s1,152
1960s1,369
1970s1,230
1980s796
1990s318
Other decades199

By state or territory

State / territoryRecords
Bihar4,795
Jharkhand831
How to read these numbers

Small counts and a second count where needed are withheld for privacy; an omitted value is not zero. Coverage, dates and suppression.

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Sources

  1. Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

    Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001

  2. Monier-Williams, śiva, p. 1074,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)

Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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