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Shawnda

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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
Babies named Shawnda, by year of birthgirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named Shawnda
1950s13
1960s387
1970s1,231
1980s639
1990s236
2000s32

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.

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.