MEANING & CONTEXT
What does Sivan mean?
Sivan is a Tamil name for Shiva. Its formation adds a masculine Tamil ending to the deity's name. The Sanskrit source śiva carries the sense auspicious or gracious.
Meaning themes
Spellings in Indian scripts
Devanagari
शिवन
Conventional spelling
HISTORICAL VOTER RECORDS
Sivan in Indian usage
19,931 historical electoral-roll records, chiefly adults, rather than current baby-name rankings.
Mostly recorded for boys (96.4%) in these historical records.
- Recorded as female: 726 records (3.6%).
- Recorded as male: 19,205 records (96.4%).
By birth decade
| Birth decade | Records |
|---|---|
| 1940s | 1,559 |
| 1950s | 4,058 |
| 1960s | 5,916 |
| 1970s | 4,908 |
| 1980s | 2,231 |
| 1990s | 791 |
| Other decades | 468 |
By state or territory
| State / territory | Records |
|---|---|
| Kerala | 13,030 |
| Bihar | 5,182 |
| Jharkhand | 1,121 |
| Maharashtra | 146 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 104 |
| Other states | 348 |
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
- Historical Indian voter-record totals, v3 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Historical usage; CC0 1.0; birth years 1910–2001
- Wiktionary: சிவன் ↗ (opens in a new tab)
- Monier-Williams, śiva, p. 1074,1 ↗ (opens in a new tab)
Adapted dictionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0.