Sivan
Feminine
Sivan is given to both — 644 girls and 83 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Sivan is a month. It is the third month of the Hebrew calendar, falling in May and June, and it contains Shavuot — the festival that marks the giving of the Torah at Sinai. Naming a child after a month is a modern Israeli habit, and Sivan is the most-used example of it.
How old is the name Sivan?
Sivan first appears in US birth records in 1982 — 43 years ago. The typical Sivan alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 600 people named Sivan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Sivan most popular?
Sivan peaked in 1987, reaching #4474 nationally. Today it ranks #7133, 2,659 places below that high. See the whole 1987 chart.
Where it comes from
From Simānu to Sivan
The story of Sivan
Modern Israeli naming draws freely on the calendar, the landscape and the language in ways diaspora naming did not: Sivan, Nisan and Adar from the months; Tal, Geffen, Rotem and Alon from plants and weather; Shir and Zohar from abstract nouns. These are twentieth-century formations and they mark a generation. Sivan became common in Israel from the 1970s and appears in American records from the 1980s, peaking in 1987, carried almost entirely by Israeli-American families rather than by any broader fashion.
Meaning
The third month of the Hebrew calendar, from a Babylonian month name
The Hebrew month names were adopted from Babylonian during the exile: Sivan is Akkadian Simānu. The word's own meaning in Akkadian is not securely known, though a connection to a term for season has been proposed. What is settled is that the name is a month, and which month, and what it contains.
How the name formed
- Simānu
- סיוןSivan
Related forms: סיוון · Simānu
Pronouncing Sivan
see-VAHN
Two syllables with the stress on the second, as Hebrew generally stresses the final syllable. English speakers say SIV-un or SEE-van with front stress. The v is a full V, not a W.
Nicknames for Sivan
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1982
- Most girls named
- 201229 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #4474reached in 1987
- Change vs 2024
- −16.7%15 in 2025, from 18
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Sivan in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- סיוון in Hebrew — same name
- Simānu in Akkadian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, New York.
Sivans among us
people named Sivan are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 107,151 born in 2025 was named Sivan
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Tamsin test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Sivan's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Tamsin climbed just as high around 1956, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Tamsin's path sketches the road Sivan is walking now.
Sivan sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Sivan beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Sivan in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled and specific, with a real place in the calendar.
- It is short, two syllables, and easy for English speakers to say.
- It is used for both sexes in Israel, with a female skew.
- It is essentially unknown outside Israeli and Jewish communities.
- The stress falls on the second syllable, which English speakers reverse.
- Naming for a month is meaningful only if the family observes the calendar.
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Feminine · #7133 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Sivans are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Sivan are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Sivan in 2025?
- Sivan ranks #7133 among US girl names in 2025, with 15 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Sivan?
- About 1 in every 107,151 US girls born in 2025 was named Sivan — 15 in all.
- Will my child share the name Sivan with classmates?
- Sivan will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Sivan
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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