Girls' name · since 1971
Mashona
24 babies named Mashona in U.S. Social Security records since 1971, with the highest year being 1971. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 24
- total births
- 1971–1983
- years on record
- 1970s
- peak decade
- 79%
- born in that decade
Mashona sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 24 recorded since 1971.
Mashona has 24 recorded births among girls since 1971, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1971 to 1983.
- 24 total births
- 1971–1983 years on record
- 1970s peak decade
- 79% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Mashona's 24 recorded births place it above 39% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Mashona's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Mashona's SSA record in two at 1973 and the more recent half accounts for 46% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 54%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1983, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1971 peak of 7, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Mashona popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1971–1983
- Peak year (1971)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 13 years of records
Mashona by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1970s was Mashona's strongest decade.
19 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 79% of all-time use.
Mashona births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
19 births
- 1980s 5
1980s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 19 births (79% of all-time use).
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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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, 1971–1983 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Mashona: Baby Name Since 1971 - 24 Births, Peak 1971." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/mashona. 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 Mashona 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.