Shawnda
Shawnda is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 871st, in 1975.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1975154 births
- Best rank
- #871in 1975
- Since 1957
- 2,538people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,538 girls have been named Shawnda in the United States since 1957, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1975, with 154 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 154 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1976, and the 1970s alone account for 49%. It has spent 6 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1975, its biggest year
Shawnda was the 871st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1975 were Jennifer, Amy, Heather, Melissa and Angela. See all of 1975.
Names that rose and fell with Shawnda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Sherondapeak 1974
- Staciepeak 1971
- Shondrapeak 1973
- Latonyapeak 1974
- Kristiepeak 1974
- Shanonpeak 1970
- Necolepeak 1972
- Shannanpeak 1969
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.