Shandi
Shandi was last recorded in 2015, when 5 babies were given it; 1,744 Americans have been recorded with it between 1968 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,690 Americans named Shandi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 33 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shandi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shandi?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,710, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
110 babies in 1986, the peak
Shandi peaked in 1986, when 110 girls were given it, #1,247 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #18,710 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,239 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,273 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,118 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,340 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 19 | #7,023 | 10.0 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,290 | 11.4 |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,095 | 11.6 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,402 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 29 | #4,688 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 14 | #7,925 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,205 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,341 | 12.2 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,429 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,548 | 14.1 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,773 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 23 | #4,634 | 13.2 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,807 | 16.5 |
| 1995 | 37 | #3,140 | 21.0 |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,923 | 23.0 |
| 1993 | 43 | #2,810 | 23.8 |
| 1992 | 57 | #2,306 | 30.9 |
| 1991 | 67 | #2,047 | 35.7 |
| 1990 | 81 | #1,790 | 42.7 |
| 1989 | 79 | #1,724 | 42.9 |
| 1988 | 100 | #1,404 | 56.2 |
| 1987 | 108 | #1,296 | 62.1 |
| 1986 | 110 | #1,247 | 64.1 |
| 1985 | 105 | #1,283 | 61.0 |
| 1984 | 73 | #1,562 | 43.4 |
| 1983 | 100 | #1,258 | 59.9 |
| 1982 | 77 | #1,550 | 45.5 |
| 1981 | 103 | #1,260 | 61.7 |
| 1980 | 61 | #1,802 | 36.7 |
| 1979 | 39 | #2,422 | 24.3 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,612 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,731 | 13.0 |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,262 | 15.0 |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,235 | 15.1 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,186 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,123 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,389 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,054 | 6.6 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,296 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,963 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shandi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shandi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 45 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shandi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shandi, and how old are they?
1,690 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,744 Americans ever recorded as Shandi. The median Shandi alive today is 39 years old; half are between 33 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 1,532 people named Shandi (1,522 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,705 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 234 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,170 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 273 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 11 |
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 Shandi born?
The states with the most babies named Shandi are Texas, California and Oklahoma, with 52% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 101 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 77 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Oklahoma | 35 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Utah | 26 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 25 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 21 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 19 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 17 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Louisiana | 15 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
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 Shandi 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 14,786 babies since 1880, Shandi is the third most given (12% of them). In 2025 none of their 90 babies recorded by SSA was a Shandi (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Shandi
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 Shandi and names like it
- Compare Shandi and ShandaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sShandi peaked in 1986.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shandi since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Shandi.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shandi alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.