Girls' name · since 1971
Mashonda
Mashonda has 120 recorded births since 1971 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1976 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 120
- total births
- 1971–1990
- years on record
- 1970s
- peak decade
- 57%
- born in that decade
Mashonda is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 120 have been recorded since 1971.
Mashonda has 120 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 1990.
- 120 total births
- 1971–1990 years on record
- 1970s peak decade
- 57% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Mashonda's 120 recorded births place it above 65% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Mashonda's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Mashonda splits its recorded history at 1980: 43% of all births land in the more recent half, 57% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1981 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1976 peak of 15 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Mashonda popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1971–1990
- Peak year (1976)
- 15
- Annual births at peak, across 20 years of records
Mashonda by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1970s was Mashonda's strongest decade.
68 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 57% of all-time use.
Mashonda births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
68 births
- 1980s
1980s
46 births
- 1990s 6
1990s
6 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 68 births (57% of all-time use).
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- Mashonda's decade-level peak was the 1970s (68 total births); usage has since declined to 6 in the 1990s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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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, 1971–1990 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Mashonda: Baby Name Since 1971 - 120 Births, Peak 1976." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/mashonda. 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 Mashonda 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.