Shalanda
Shalanda was last recorded in 2005, when 8 babies were given it; 1,744 Americans have been recorded with it between 1964 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,660 Americans named Shalanda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 41 and 51.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shalanda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shalanda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,816, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
115 babies in 1977, the peak
Shalanda peaked in 1977, when 115 girls were given it, #1,117 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 8 | #12,816 | 4.3 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,647 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,144 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,455 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,957 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,862 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,482 | 10.3 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,896 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 23 | #4,490 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,488 | 17.7 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 32 | #3,478 | 17.4 |
| 1991 | 30 | #3,613 | 16.0 |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,133 | 19.0 |
| 1989 | 39 | #2,854 | 21.2 |
| 1988 | 49 | #2,285 | 27.5 |
| 1987 | 51 | #2,147 | 29.3 |
| 1986 | 46 | #2,257 | 26.8 |
| 1985 | 49 | #2,166 | 28.5 |
| 1984 | 66 | #1,678 | 39.2 |
| 1983 | 61 | #1,767 | 36.5 |
| 1982 | 66 | #1,714 | 39.0 |
| 1981 | 81 | #1,502 | 48.6 |
| 1980 | 99 | #1,296 | 59.6 |
| 1979 | 93 | #1,335 | 57.9 |
| 1978 | 103 | #1,218 | 67.2 |
| 1977 | 115 | #1,117 | 75.0 |
| 1976 | 94 | #1,214 | 64.2 |
| 1975 | 100 | #1,160 | 68.6 |
| 1974 | 83 | #1,298 | 56.6 |
| 1973 | 83 | #1,264 | 56.9 |
| 1972 | 57 | #1,605 | 37.5 |
| 1971 | 66 | #1,525 | 39.7 |
| 1970 | 34 | #2,297 | 19.4 |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,178 | 11.3 |
| 1968 | 30 | #2,237 | 18.3 |
| 1967 | 12 | #4,008 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,432 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,331 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,384 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shalanda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shalanda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shalanda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shalanda, and how old are they?
1,660 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,744 Americans ever recorded as Shalanda. The median Shalanda alive today is 47 years old; half are between 41 and 51.
The 2020 Census counted 1,310 people named Shalanda (1,306 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,684 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 7 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 943 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 674 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 37 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Shalanda born?
The states with the most babies named Shalanda are Georgia, Illinois and Florida, with 40% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 101 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Illinois | 100 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 87 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Louisiana | 87 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Texas | 70 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Mississippi | 49 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Alabama | 48 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| South Carolina | 42 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| New York | 35 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 21 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Shalanda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shalanda is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1964 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shalanda with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 6,815 babies since 1880, Shalanda is the second most given (26% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shalanda
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Shalanda and names like it
- Compare Shalanda and ShalondaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShalanda peaked in 1977.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shalanda since 1910.
- The top names of 1977The year the most babies were named Shalanda.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Shalanda alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.