Shandon — boys' name

What the Data Says About Shandon

The Social Security Administration has registered 748 babies named Shandon between 1966 and 2022, spanning 57 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Shandon currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 58 babies received it in a single year. Shandon is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 184 additional births since 1965.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shandon performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 239 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Shandon shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Utah, which accounts for 21 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Shandon in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shandon 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 748 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.