Shiva
How many real pets are named Shiva, which animals and breeds have it, and where.
How popular is Shiva as a pet name?
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In the public pet records we track, 31 pets are named Shiva: 26 dogs, 5 cats. Where sex was recorded, 83% are female and 17% male. It ranks #2,419 among dog names and #2,085 among cat names.
Breeds most often named Shiva
Dogs
Cats
Breeds as recorded on licenses and shelter records; mixes are grouped under their main breed.
Where pets are named Shiva
- New York City: 15licensed
- Zurich: 6licensed
- Austin shelter: 6shelter
- Seattle: 2licensed
- Cambridge, MA: 1licensed
- Sonoma County shelter: 1shelter
Shiva as a human name
This is the meaning of Shiva as a person's given name, not a pet-specific meaning.
A male given name from Sanskrit used in India.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Names similar to Shiva
Dog names about as popular as Shiva
Shiva FAQ
How many pets are named Shiva?
In the public pet records we track, 31 pets are named Shiva: 26 dogs, 5 cats. Where sex was recorded, 83% are female and 17% male. It ranks #2,419 among dog names and #2,085 among cat names.
What breed is most often named Shiva?
Among dogs named Shiva in these records, the most common breed is Shiba Inu.
Counts come from public open data: NYC Dog Licensing Dataset (NYC Open Data); Seattle Pet Licenses (public domain); Dogs of Cambridge (ODC PDDL); Hundenamen, Stadt Zürich (Open Data Zürich); Animal Shelter Intake and Outcome, County of Sonoma; Austin Animal Center Outcomes (public domain). License records count registered pets; shelter records count animals that passed through a shelter (some names are given by staff). Pets that appear in several years of one dataset are counted once. Names are counted as written, so spelling variants are separate.