Nashanda — girls' name
35 babies named Nashanda in U.S. Social Security records since 1973, with the highest year being 1981. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
51% of everyone ever named Nashanda was born in this single decade.
8 babies were named Nashanda in 1981 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Nashanda
The Social Security Administration has registered 35 babies named Nashanda between 1973 and 1992, spanning 20 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nashanda currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1992. The name reached its historical peak in 1981, when 8 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Nashanda performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 18 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Nashanda shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Nashanda in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 35 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Nashanda at a glance
Last recorded 1992Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Nashanda popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1992–1973
- Peak year (1981)
- 8
- Annual births at peak — across 20 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1992.
35 total births across 20 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1981 with 8 births in a single year.
Nashanda by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 18 births that decade — 51% of Nashanda's all-time total
Nashanda decade highlights
- Peak decade 18 births
- Runner-up 10 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Nashanda's strongest decade
18 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 51% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1973–1992 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.