Shonda
Shonda is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 419th, in 1973.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1970510 births
- Best rank
- #419in 1973
- Since 1954
- 7,444people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,444 girls have been named Shonda in the United States since 1954, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1970, with 510 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 510 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1974, and the 1970s alone account for 55%. It has spent 20 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1970, its biggest year
Shonda was the 432nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1970 were Jennifer, Lisa, Kimberly, Michelle and Amy. See all of 1970.
Names that rose and fell with Shonda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Billiejopeak 1974
- Lasonyapeak 1971
- Tawnyapeak 1972
- Staciepeak 1971
- Tishapeak 1971
- Windypeak 1975
- Latanyapeak 1972
- Tajuanapeak 1972
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.