Girls' name · since 1978
Mashawna
Mashawna has 11 recorded births since 1978 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1984 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 11
- total births
- 1978–1984
- years on record
- 1980s
- peak decade
- 55%
- born in that decade
Mashawna sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 11 recorded since 1978.
Mashawna has 11 recorded births among girls since 1978, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1978 to 1984.
- 11 total births
- 1978–1984 years on record
- 1980s peak decade
- 55% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Mashawna's 11 recorded births place it above 25% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Mashawna's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Mashawna's SSA record in two at 1984 and the more recent half accounts for 55% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 45%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1978, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1984 peak of 6, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Mashawna popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1978–1984
- Peak year (1984)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 7 years of records
Mashawna by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1980s was Mashawna's strongest decade.
6 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 55% of all-time use.
Mashawna births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
5 births
- 1980s
1980s
6 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 6 births (55% of all-time use).
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1978–1984 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Mashawna: Baby Name Since 1978 - 11 Births, Peak 1984." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/mashawna. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Mashawna draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.