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Shaivi

Gender
Girl
Say it
SHY-vee
Origin
Sanskrit
US rank, 2025
#10,913 for girls

Shaivi is a girls' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “of Shiva”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).

What does Shaivi mean?

Sanskrit: from Sanskrit shaiva 'relating to Shiva'

“of Shiva”

Built on shaiva, the Sanskrit word for anything belonging to the god Shiva, also the name for his devotees.

Is Shaivi a girl's or a boy's name?

Shaivi is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Shaivi in the US?

Rank in 2025
#10,913among girls
Babies in 2025
8about 1 in 200,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Shaivi, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2013, with 16 girls. It first appears in the records in 2004.

2025 had more girls named Shaivi than any year since 2015.

Half of all the girls named Shaivi in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.

2004Busiest: 16 in 20132025
Shaivi in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20258#10,913
20247#12,156
20230–
20220–
20215#15,246
20200–
20190–
20180–
20170–
20166#14,326
20158#11,830
20146#14,552
201316#7,368
20128#12,193
20119#11,175
201014#8,267
200912#9,375
20088#12,574
20075#17,630
20065#17,163
20056#14,495
20045#16,092

Names like Shaivi

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Names related to Shaivi

More Sanskrit names

Every Sanskrit name

Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Shaivi: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/shaivi, updated 20 October 2026.