Shanda — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shanda

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,997 babies named Shanda between 1946 and 2014, spanning 69 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shanda currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 1974, when 387 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shanda performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 3,470 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Shanda shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 714 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Shanda in 40 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shanda 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 7,997 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.